ammodyten.
Zool.† 1. A venomous snake, the Sand-Natter, a species of Viper found in Southern Europe. Obs.
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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 239 By the same meanes that the poyson of the Viper, the Ammodyte and Horned-serpent is cured withall.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 822 Sand-colour'd Ammodytes, the horned snakes.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 223 The Surinam Serpent, which some improperly call the Ammodytes.
2. The Sand-eel, Ammodytes of modern zoologists.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Ammodytoidei ( sand-lances) > member of genus Ammodytes (sand-eel)
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1698 R. Sibbald in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 266 The Women that catched the Sand Eels (Ammodites).
1748 J. Hill Hist. Animals 225 Ammodytes, the sandeel, or grig.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool. §577 The Ammodytes or Launces are remarkable for their habit of burrowing in the sand.
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