ammodyte
English
Etymology
From Latin ammodytes, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek "sand burrower, a kind of serpent".
Noun
ammodyte (plural ammodytes)
- (obsolete) One of the genus Ammodytes of fishes; the sand eel.
- (obsolete) A species of viper (Vipera ammodytes) of southeastern Europe.
References
Ammodytes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Vipera ammodytes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ammodytes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Vipera ammodytes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “ammodyte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Noun
ammodyte f (plural ammodytes)
- ammodyte (all senses)