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n. - Any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; Small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes.

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  • The blindworm coils where Queens have slept, nor asks
  • "He might have had some kind of herb, or maybe some juice from a blindworm, to make us blind."
  • It was a greenly weaving ribbon of light, a snakelike stream of glowing, phosphorescent particles that moved like a blindworm over and across the vast rocky shelf.
  • He waited at the station until an underground train snaked its way in like a giant blindworm, and went with it to the Temple and so to the quiet hotel he had chosen in...
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