blindworm

A noun referring to a small, burrowing, legless European lizard with tiny eyes, popularly believed to be blind; also used for any small, slender, limbless, burrowing wormlike amphibian of the order Gymnophiona that inhabits moist soil in tropical regions.

• 🌐اسم يشير إلى سحلية أوروبية صغيرة حافرة عديمة الأرجل ذات عيون ضامرة، يُظن شعبيًا أنها عمياء؛ كما يُستعمل للدلالة على أي برمائي صغير نحيل عديم الأرجل دودي الشكل من رتبة عديمات الأرجل يعيش في التربة الرطبة بالمناطق المدارية.

1. Legless lizard C1 formal

   A small, burrowing, legless European lizard with very small eyes, often mistakenly thought to be blind.

   • The blindworm is often found under logs in damp forests.
   • Despite its name, the blindworm can actually see, though poorly.
   • This legless lizard, the blindworm, is harmless to humans.

   🌐سحلية عديمة الأرجل

   المرادفات: slowworm

2. Caecilian C2 formal

   Any of the small, slender, limbless, wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, which inhabit moist soil in tropical regions.

   • The blindworm, or caecilian, is rarely seen above ground.
   • Tropical blindworms burrow through the soil in search of insects.
   • Scientists discovered a new species of blindworm in the Amazon.

   🌐عديم الأرجل

   المرادفات: caecilian

• blindworms plural form
• blindworms' possessive plural form
• blindworm's possessive singular form