Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ammodyte

Ammodyte ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin ammodytes, Greek {not transcribed} sand burrower, a kind of serpent; 'a`mmos sand + {not transcribed} diver, {not transcribed} to dive.]

(a)
(Zoology) One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.
(b)
(Zoology) A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obsolete]