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.

• 🇨🇳指一种小型、穴居、无足的欧洲蜥蜴，眼睛极小，民间常认为它是盲的；也泛指任何细长、无足、穴居的蠕虫状两栖动物（属于无足目），生活在热带地区的潮湿土壤中。

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.

   🇨🇳蛇蜥

   同义词: 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.

   🇨🇳蚓螈

   同义词: caecilian

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