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Webster 1913 Edition

Caecilian

Cæ-cil′i-an

(?; 106)

,

Noun.

[L.

caecus

blind. So named from the supposed blindness of the species, the eyes being very minute.]

(Zool.)

A limbless amphibian belonging to the order

Cæciliæ

or

Ophimorpha

. See

.

[Written also

cœcilian

.]