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worm snake

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: worm snake

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wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes
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small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: worm snake
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n wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes

Synonyms:
blind snake
Types:
Leptotyphlops humilis, western blind snake
burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States
Type of:
ophidian, serpent, snake
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
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n small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States

Synonyms:
Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake
Type of:
colubrid, colubrid snake
mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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