Definition of "olms" [olms]

• Plural form of olm. (noun)

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• "What might be the most fascinating fact concerning olms is the most poorly-known and least mentioned one: the 1986 discovery of a surface-dwelling olm, described in 1994 by Boris Sket and Jan Willem Arntzen."
• "However, the Austrian anatomist J.N. Laurenti became very interested in olms at the same time as Scopoli (apparently because of a specimen Scopoli had sent to one of the Laurenti’s friends) and, in 1768, published the first scientific description of the species (Laurenti 1768)."
• "A small subpopulation of “black olms” may be a separate species requiring additional protection."