单词 | blindworm |
释义 | blindworm (once / 214897 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY blindworm: blindworms USAGE EXAMPLESThe first snake, the Blindworm, is not a snake, nor yet a worm. Various, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volu...(2010) I occasionally saw a snake, but always of the harmless, blindworm variety. Suffling, Ernest R. (Ernest Richard), Jethou—or Crusoe Life in the Channe...(2010) It is because she dares not go to sleep on account of the Blindworm, who is waiting to catch her with her eyes closed. Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), The Curious Book of Birds(2010) 1 n small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind 2Syn|Hyper Anguis fragilis, slowworm anguid lizard any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects n any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions Syn|Hyper caecilian amphibian cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form |
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