shieldtail
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
shield + tail
Noun
shieldtail (plural shieldtails)
- Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native to Ceylon and Southern Asia.
Synonyms
- pipe snake
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shieldtail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- hiatellids, tailshield