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Leptotyphlops

noun

blind snakes of Asia and Africa and Americas

• Syn: ↑genus Leptotyphlops

• Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Leptotyphlopidae, ↑family Leptotyphlopidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑western blind snake, ↑Leptotyphlops humilis

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\\|leptə+\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from lept- + Typhlops, genus of snakes — more at typhlopidae

: a genus (the type of the family Leptotyphlopidae) of small burrowing vermiform snakes of Africa, southwestern Asia, and the warmer parts of America

Useful english dictionary. 2012.