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glass snake

noun

Definition of glass snake

: any of a genus (Ophisaurus) of limbless snakelike lizards of the southern U.S., Eurasia, and Africa with a fragile tail that readily breaks off from the body often in pieces

First Known Use of glass snake

1709, in the meaning defined above

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