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limbless

[ US /ˈɫɪmɫəs/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪmləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having no limbs
    a snake is a limbless reptile

How To Use limbless In A Sentence

  • Fourteen years later, while serving in the Union army, Gilmore took “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye,” an Irish antiwar song of a soldier returning from war blind and limbless, added elements of a Negro spiritual he had heard sung by a black street urchin, “dressed it up, gave it a name, and rhymed it into usefulness for a special purpose suited to the times.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Serpents, or Snakes, says the Encyclopaedia, are reptiles of the saurian class Ophidia, characterised by an elongated, cylindrical, limbless, scaly form, and distinguished from lizards by the fact that the halves Indiscretions of Archie
  • a snake is a limbless reptile
  • With the new discovery of whale fossils, scientists have only recently been able to study the efficiency of limbless swimming.
  • At first sight, the concept of ‘handedness’ is inapplicable to completely limbless animals, and thus it is difficult to imagine a right-handed snake.
  • The images of suffering and mutilation, of limbless children and deformed young women, have been in the media for years, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
  • For example, in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops but the apical ridge dies thus stopping limb development.
  • The disease rotted away his flesh till he died, limbless or faceless in fearful shipwreck, and unhouselled. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
  • People dont like these kind of pictures , it offends them specially the so called puritanical Muslims..but show them the pictures of the havoc on Iraqi streets , the jehhadi attacks, limbless bodies, they wont find fault with it, as all this spiritual terrorism against Humanity is condoned for the greater glory of Misguided Martydom and radical Islam.. 2008 February 20 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
  • For example, in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops but the apical ridge dies thus stopping limb development.
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