small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind
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any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
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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.