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An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also…

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  1. n. pl. An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.
  2. An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.
  3. An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike bodywith regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded inthe skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes thecæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.