Later another tail will grow, but the lost piece will not develop into a new glass snake.
Also called the glass snake or legless lizard, the slender glass lizard has a pointed snout, narrow head, and a long cylindrical body with no limbs.
As children we called them glass snakes and I often found them in our Orlando backyard where I played and learned to appreciate resident wildlife.
Lizards typically have four legs with five toes on each foot, although a few, such as the worm lizard and the so-called glass snake, are limbless, retaining only internal vestiges of legs.
Their common name, glass lizard or glass snake, is due to their ability, like many lizards, of dropping their tail.
Definition of glass snake in US English:
glass snake
noun
another term for glass lizard
Example sentencesExamples
Lizards typically have four legs with five toes on each foot, although a few, such as the worm lizard and the so-called glass snake, are limbless, retaining only internal vestiges of legs.
Their common name, glass lizard or glass snake, is due to their ability, like many lizards, of dropping their tail.
As children we called them glass snakes and I often found them in our Orlando backyard where I played and learned to appreciate resident wildlife.
Also called the glass snake or legless lizard, the slender glass lizard has a pointed snout, narrow head, and a long cylindrical body with no limbs.
Later another tail will grow, but the lost piece will not develop into a new glass snake.