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Aniliidae

plural noun
An·​i·​li·​idae | \ -īəˌdē\

Definition of Aniliidae

: a small family of tropical nonvenomous burrowing snakes with vestigial pelvis and vestigial hind legs

First Known Use of Aniliidae

1907, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for Aniliidae

borrowed from New Latin, from Anilius, type genus (from Anilios, according to Buffon [18th-century French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon] the name of a snake of the genus Typhlops on Cyprus) + -idae -idae

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