WORM SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worm snake mean? 

• WORM SNAKE (noun)
  The noun WORM SNAKE has 2 senses:

1. wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes

2. small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States

  Familiarity information: WORM SNAKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORM 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 ("worm snake" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "worm 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 ("worm snake" is a member of...):

family Leptotyphlopidae; Leptotyphlopidae (blind snakes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carphophis amoenus; thunder snake; worm snake

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

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

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

Carphophis; genus Carphophis (thunder snake)