Cae*cil"i*an [L. caecus blind. So named from the supposed blindness of the species, the eyes being very minute.] Zool.

A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.

[Written also cecilian.]

 

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