worm snake

worm snake

n.

Either of two small harmless North American snakes (Carphophis amoenus or C. vermis), usually living under stones or logs and feeding chiefly on earthworms.

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worm′ snake`

n.

any of several small, wormlike snakes, esp. Carphophis amoenus, of the E and central U.S.

[1880–85, Amer.]

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	worm snake - wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes blind snake ophidian, serpent, snake - limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous family Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopidae - blind snakes Leptotyphlops humilis, western blind snake - burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States
	2.	worm snake - small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes Carphophis, genus Carphophis - thunder snake

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