Gymnophiona – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Gymnophiona
Gymnophiona is a group of
amphibians which includes the legless
caecilians and all amphibians more closely related to them than to
frogs or
salamanders (the "stem-caecilians"). The name derives from the Greek words γυμνος (
gymnos, naked) and οφις (
ophis, snake), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes.
Gymnophiona
Noun
1. an order of amphibians including caecilians
(synonym) order Gymnophiona
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Amphibia, class Amphibia
(member-meronym) Caeciliidae, family Caeciliidae, Caeciliadae, family Caeciliadae
Gymnophiona
(n. pl.)
An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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