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slow worm

slow worm is the alternative form of slowworm.

Meaning of slowworm

Noun

slowworm (plural slowworms)

  1. A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
    • Well, sir, it may be we shall have some better orations of it anon: well, Ile watch you as narrowly as ever you were watcht, and Ile play with you as the nightingale with the slowworme;[…]c. 1588, Robert Greene, “Scene Eleventh. Frier Bacons cell.”, in The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay

Forms of slow worm

pluralslow worms

Questions about slow worm

What is slow worm the alternative form of?
Slow worm is the alternative form of slowworm.

Words near slow worm in the dictionary

  1. slow train
  2. slow trains
  3. slow TV
  4. slow up
  5. slow wheel
  6. slow worm
  7. slow worms
  8. slow-acting
  9. slow-bellies
  10. slow-belly
  11. slow-burn

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