Usually means: Legless, burrowing, amphibian with scales.
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  1. caecilian: Merriam-Webster
  2. caecilian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caecilian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caecilian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caecilian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caecilian, caecilian: Wordnik
  7. caecilian: Wiktionary
  8. caecilian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caecilian: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Caecilian, caecilian: Dictionary.com
  11. Caecilian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Caecilian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. caecilian: Rhymezone
  14. Caecilian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. caecilian: FreeDictionary.org
  16. caecilian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. caecilian: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. caecilian: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caecilian)

▸ noun:  Any of a group of burrowing amphibians of the order Gymnophiona that resemble earthworms or snakes.

Similar:
blindworm, cecilian, cæcilian, coecilian, caeciliid, apodal, gymnophionan, caeciliusid, caecid, caeculid, more...

Opposite:
acaudate, anuran, frog, toad

Types:
Typhlonectes, Ichthyophis, Atretochoana, Uraeotyphlus, Gegeneophis, more...

Adjectives:
aquatic, american, viviparous, sticky, female, central, fossil, african

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Similar:
blindworm, cecilian, cæcilian, coecilian, caeciliid, apodal, gymnophionan, caeciliusid, caecid, caeculid, more...

Opposite:
acaudate, anuran, frog, toad

Types:
Typhlonectes, Ichthyophis, Atretochoana, Uraeotyphlus, Gegeneophis, more...

Adjectives:
aquatic, american, viviparous, sticky, female, central, fossil, african



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