BLIND SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blind snake mean? 

• BLIND SNAKE (noun)
  The noun BLIND SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes

  Familiarity information: BLIND SNAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLIND SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blind snake; worm snake

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)