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slowworms

slowworms is the plural 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

Questions about slowworms

What is slowworms the plural of?
Slowworms is the plural of slowworm.

Words near slowworms in the dictionary

  1. slowtard
  2. slowtards
  3. slowth
  4. slowwitted
  5. slowworm
  6. slowworms
  7. Sloyan
  8. Sloyans
  9. sloyd
  10. sloyds
  11. SLP

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