Meanings
plural glass lizards
- A member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards.
When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.
2015 March 16, Andreas Wagner, “Possible creatures”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2018Synonyms: glass snake
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA member of the subfamily Anguinae, comprising some twenty extant species of legless lizards.
More synonyms by meaning
nounsnakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail
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glass lizard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glass%20lizard
“glass lizard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glass%20lizard. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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