worm snake

/wərm sneɪk/

Other forms: worm snakes

Definitions of worm snake

1. noun

   wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes
   synonyms: blind snake

   types:

   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

   type of:

   ophidian, serpent, snake

   limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
2. noun

   small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
   synonyms: Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake

   type of:

   colubrid, colubrid snake

   mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes