Having a snake-like shape or form; long and slender with a minimal number of limbs or none at all.
From Latin 'anguis' (snake) plus '-form' (from Latin 'forma' meaning shape). The term describes anything resembling a snake in body structure rather than necessarily being a true snake.
Anguiform is the anatomical term for the body plan that snakes perfected—it's so efficient for moving through grass and soil that eels, legless lizards, amphisbaenians, and even some whales evolved to look nearly identical, a phenomenon called convergent evolution.
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