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amphisbaena🔊

(mythological creature) A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body, able to move in either direction.

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What do you call that animal that goes backward and forward, head at each end? —'Amphisbaena'. A kind of lizard. It doesn't exist.

A member of a genus of lizards, native to the Americas, having extremities which are very similar.

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