blindworm

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blindworm - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Blindworm \Blind"worm`\, n. (Zool.)
     A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis
     ), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind;
     the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
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           Newts and blindworms do no wrong.        --Shak.
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blindworm - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blindworm
      n 1: small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes;
           popularly believed to be blind [syn: blindworm,
           slowworm, Anguis fragilis]
      2: any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike
         amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in
         tropical regions [syn: caecilian, blindworm]