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.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un petit lézard européen apode et fouisseur aux yeux minuscules, populairement considéré comme aveugle ; il s'emploie aussi pour toute amphibie apode, fine et vermiforme de l'ordre des Gymnophiona, vivant dans les sols humides des régions tropicales.

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.

   🇫🇷orvet commun

   Synonymes: 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.

   🇫🇷Cécile (amphibien apode)

   Synonymes: caecilian

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