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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



... is partly ours, Throbbing its radiance like a beating heart; In the wide compass of angelic powers The instinct of the blindworm has its part; So in God's kingliest creature we behold The flower ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blindworm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm ...
— The Book of Hallowe'en • Ruth Edna Kelley


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


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