| NOUN | animal | worm snake, blind snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
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| animal | worm snake, thunder snake, Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
| Meaning | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes. | |
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| Synonym | blind snake | |
| Member of | Leptotyphlopidae, family Leptotyphlopidae | blind snakes |
| Narrower | western blind snake, Leptotyphlops humilis | burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States |
| Broader | snake, serpent, ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile |
| Meaning | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | thunder snake, Carphophis amoenus | |
| Member of | Carphophis, genus Carphophis | thunder snake |
| Broader | colubrid snake, colubrid | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
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