limbless
Adjective
Meaning
Destitute of limbs.
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Examples
a snake is a limbless reptile
The general scientific consensus formerly (before 2001) considered them early limbless arthropods, but now considers them early deuterostomes.
Snakes and limbless lizards typically possess only the right lung as a major respiratory organ; the left lung is greatly reduced, or even absent.
The Pygopodidae is a family of limbless lizards endemic to the Australian region; Egerton, p. 315. all 39 species from seven genera occur in Australia.
These are long, cylindrical, limbless animals with a snake- or worm-like form.