Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blindworm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blindworm \Blind"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard ({Anguis
fragilis}), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind;
the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
Newts and blindworms do no wrong. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blindworm
n 1: small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes;
popularly believed to be blind [syn: {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}]
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