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BLIND SNAKE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes

Synonyms:

blind snake; worm snake

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blind snake" is a kind of...):

ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blind snake"):

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)

Holonyms ("blind snake" is a member of...):

family Leptotyphlopidae; Leptotyphlopidae (blind snakes)

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