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Definition of Scincoids
1. scincoid [n] - See also: scincoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scincoids
Literary usage of Scincoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1854)
"... the scincoids—in which the centrums coalesce, the hind end of the second
presents a ball to the first caudal—not a cup, as in the crocodile. ..."
2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"In a family like the scincoids, in which the limbs are undergoing a process of
abortion, this character must be abandoned as one expressing relationship by ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"... as degraded scincoids. Group IV. Varanidae, which are in many respects the
most highly developed of all. ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1858)
"The next argument in order is drawn from an extended series of facts, illustrated
by the example of the scincoids, in which there is a regular gradation of ..."
5. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"... or, behind these, they may be continued into one another, to form complete
hoops across the wall of the abdomen (Geckos, Chama- leons, scincoids). ..."
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