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Definition of Limbless
1. Adjective. Having no limbs. "A snake is a limbless reptile"
Definition of Limbless
1. a. Destitute of limbs.
Definition of Limbless
1. Adjective. Lacking limbs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Limbless
1. having no arms or legs [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limbless
Literary usage of Limbless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The typ« genus of a family of degraded, limbless lizard;, of the general appearance
of snakes or worms, found only in the West Indies and South America. ..."
2. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"The elongated limbless form of snakes seems at first sight almost enough to define
this order from other Reptiles, but it must be carefully noticed that ..."
3. Publications of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men by Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (1918)
"If he has suffered the amputation of a limb he goes to a 'limbless' hospital and
is given every opportunity to make as complete a recovery as modern science ..."
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