Blindworm \Blind"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard ({Anguis
fragilis}), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind;
the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
Newts and blindworms do no wrong. --Shak.
Anguis fragilis
n : small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes;
popularly believed to be blind [syn: {blindworm}, {slowworm}]