worm snake

worm snake

n.

A small, harmless burrowing snake (Carphophis amoena) of the central and eastern United States, usually living under stones or logs and feeding chiefly on earthworms.

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