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Blindworm   Listen
noun
Blindworm  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. "Newts and blindworms do no wrong."





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"Blindworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... healthy stir of human life Must be for ever gone! The walls where hung the warrior's shining casque Are green with moss and mould; The blindworm coils where Queens have slept, nor asks For shelter from the cold. The swallow,—he is master all the day, And the great owl is ruler through the night; The little bat wheels on his circling way, With restless ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser


Words linked to "Blindworm" :   Anguis fragilis, Caeciliidae, genus Anguis, family Caeciliidae, anguid lizard, slowworm, Caeciliadae


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