Abastor
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “grc ἄβαστον, ἄβατος ("untrodden")”)
Proper noun
[edit]Abastor m
- (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Colubridae – a former name of Farancia, referring to the rainbow snake, and conflated with the mythical hoop snake. [from 1849]
References
[edit]- “Abastor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.