worm snake

worm snake

n. Either of two small harmless North American snakes (Carphophis amoenus or C. vermis), usually living under stones or logs and feeding chiefly on earthworms.

worm′ snake`

n. any of several small, wormlike snakes, esp. Carphophis amoenus, of the E and central U.S. [1880–85, Amer.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	worm snake - wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyesblind snakeophidian, serpent, snake - limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomousfamily Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopidae - blind snakesLeptotyphlops 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
	2.	worm snake - small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United StatesCarphophis amoenus, thunder snakecolubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakesCarphophis, genus Carphophis - thunder snake