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WORM SNAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
Synonyms:
Carphophis amoenus; thunder snake; worm snake
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes
Synonyms:
blind snake; worm snake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
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)
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