limbless
Lacking arms, legs
Limbless means having no limbs—no arms, legs, or analogous appendages.
The word most often describes snakes and other legless reptiles, or humans born without limbs or who have lost them: a limbless torso, limbless lizards.
A limbless tree has been stripped of its branches.
Limbless scaled reptile
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- slitherGlide smoothly, sinuously
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- pythonNonvenomous squeezing snake
cobra · viper · anaconda · boa · constrictor · mamba · rattlesnake · adder
One without a limb
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- quadriplegicParalyzed in all limbs
- paraplegicLower-limb paralysis sufferer
amputation · accessibility · assistive technology · rehabilitation · mobility aid · adaptive equipment · inclusion · accommodation
Reduced, without current function
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- regressionReturn to former state
- legless lizardLimbless squamate with eyelids
degeneration · natural selection · mutation · fossils · phylogeny · homology · rudimentary · ancestral
Resembling a legless crawler
- burrowingDigging to create shelter
- amphibianDual-habitat cold-blooded vertebrate
- segmentedDivided into sections
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
underground · eyeless · tentacled · elongated · cylindrical
Divine snake being
- wyrmLimbless dragon creature
- QuetzalcoatlAztec feathered serpent god
- dragonLegendary fire-breathing reptile
- ouroborosSelf-consuming serpent emblem
Medusa · basilisk · sea serpent · Leviathan · Tiamat
snake
Limbless scaled reptile
python · cobra · viper · anaconda · boa · constrictor · mamba · rattlesnake · adder · asp
amputee
One without a limb
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- quadriplegicParalyzed in all limbs
paraplegic · amputation · accessibility · assistive technology · rehabilitation · mobility aid · adaptive equipment · inclusion · accommodation · barrier-free
vestigial
Reduced, without current function
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- regressionReturn to former state
legless lizard · degeneration · natural selection · mutation · fossils · phylogeny · homology · rudimentary · ancestral · speciation
worm-like
Resembling a legless crawler
- burrowingDigging to create shelter
- amphibianDual-habitat cold-blooded vertebrate
- segmentedDivided into sections
tropical · underground · eyeless · tentacled · elongated · cylindrical
naga
Divine snake being
- wyrmLimbless dragon creature
- QuetzalcoatlAztec feathered serpent god
- dragonLegendary fire-breathing reptile
ouroboros · Medusa · basilisk · sea serpent · Leviathan · Tiamat
- animal traitsfur, tail, claws, teeth, wings
- reptile traitsscaly, cold-blooded, slithering, forked tongue, shedding skin
- missing partsmissing finger, missing toe, missing hand, armless, legless
- leg countsbipedal, two legs, quadruped, four legs, hexapod
- elongated creaturesearthworm, eel, snake, serpent, worm
limblesslimbed
Having projecting body parts
four-legged · legged · quadruped · armed · two-legged