SLOW-WORM, SLOE-WORM

n.An insect found on the leaves of the sloe-tree, which often changes its skin and assumes different colors. It changes into a four winged fly.

SLOW-WORM

n.A kind of viper, the blind worm, scarcely venomous.

slow-worm

slow-worm |sloʊ wərm | ▶noun a small snakelike Eurasian legless lizard that is typically brownish or copper-colored and that gives birth to live young. Also called blindworm. [Anguis fragilis, family Anguidae. ] ORIGIN Old English slāwyrm, from slā - (of uncertain origin ) + wyrm ‘snake. ’

slow-worm

slow-worm ▶noun a small snake-like Eurasian legless lizard that is typically brownish or copper-coloured and which gives birth to live young. Also called blindworm. ●Anguis fragilis, family Anguidae. ORIGIN Old English slāwyrm, from slā - (of uncertain origin ) + wyrm ‘snake ’.