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Webster 1913 Edition


Blindworm

Blind′wormˊ

,
Noun.
(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.
Newts and
blindworms
do no wrong.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Blindworm

BLINDWORM

,
Noun.
[blind and worm.] A small reptile, called also slow worm, a species of Anguis, about eleven inches long, covered with scales, with a forked tongue, but harmless.

Definition 2024


blindworm

blindworm

English

Noun

blindworm (plural blindworms)

  1. the slowworm

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