Usually means: Legless lizard resembling a snake.
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▸ noun:  Alternative form of slowworm [A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.]

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slow worm, slowworm, blindworm, wormlet, groundsnake, orvet, rainworm, wormling, thunderworm, slow loris, more...



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