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blindworm
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blindworm, n.
A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis ), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. [1913 Webster]
"Newts and blindworms do no wrong." [1913 Webster]
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