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Popularly believed to be blind
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slowworm
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind [syn: blindworm , Anguis fragilis ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slowworm \Slow"worm`\, n. [AS. sl[=a]wyrm; the first part is probably akin to sle['a]n to strike, the reptile being supposed to be very poisonous. See Slay , v. t., and Worm .] (Zo["o]l.) A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small Old World lizard, ''Anguis fragilis'', often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
Usage examples of slowworm.
From all parts of Europe long and sinister black files are crawling hitherward in serpentine lines, like slowworms through grass.
Since then a large silvery slowworm was killed just there--a great pity, for they are perfectly harmless.
The warmth of the sun, although we could not feel it, must have penetrated into the earth some time since, for a slowworm came forth on a mound for the first time on April 16.
Two long slowworms snaked away hissing noisily, disturbed from their rest.
The two slowworms indicated where the sleeping travellers lay by thrusting their heads forward and hissing.
Crowding under slowworms of lit glass spelling names and services, simple animationsa red-mouthed lady drawn with the light, replaced stutteringly with another who had raised her glass, and back again in autistic illuminant recursion.