olm
/əʊlm
/ /ɒlm /noun
A pale-skinned blind salamander with external gills which lives in limestone caves in SE Europe.
- Proteus anguinus, family Proteidae.
Origin
Late 19th century: from German.
Rhymes
- green sauce
- Greensboro
- green schist
- greenschist facies
- green screen
- green seal
- green sea turtle
- greens fee
- Green's function
- greenshank
- green shoots (of recovery)
- greensick
- greensickness
- green side
- greenside
- green sirup
- greenskeeper
- Greensleeves
- green slip
- green snake
- greensome
- green space
- Greenspan, Alan
- Green's theorem
- greenstick fracture