What Are Blind Worms?

The slow worm is a reptile native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, a slowworm, a blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple. These legless lizards are also sometimes called common slowworms. The "blind" in blindworm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake.

What is the meaning of blind worm?

Definitions of blindworm. small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind. synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm. type of: anguid lizard. any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects.

Is a blindworm a snake?

The specific name of that legless lizard that looks, so like a snake, the blindworm or slowworm, is fragilis; it is a good name, too; far better than many scientific titles. ... The advantage to the lizard is obvious.