legless lizard

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   degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards

   Broaderlizard

   Part ofAnniellidae

Questions about legless lizard

What does legless lizard mean?

legless lizard means "degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards".

Is legless lizard a common word?

legless lizard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.