A slowworm is a limbless lizard, not a snake.
Source: tatoeba (1929719)
Slowworm
//ˈsləʊwɜː(ɹ)m//
Synonyms for "slowworm" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
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3 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 35 languages.
Basque
1 entries- ziraun noun (Anguis fragilis)
Bulgarian
1 entries- слепок noun (Anguis fragilis)
Catalan
4 entries- llisona noun (Anguis fragilis)
- noia noun (Anguis fragilis)
- serp de vidre noun (Anguis fragilis)
- vidriol noun (Anguis fragilis)
Cornish
1 entries- anav noun (Anguis fragilis)
Czech
1 entries- slepýš noun (Anguis fragilis)
Dutch
1 entries- hazelworm noun (Anguis fragilis)
Esperanto
1 entries- angviso noun (Anguis fragilis)
Estonian
1 entries- vaskuss noun (Anguis fragilis)
Finnish
1 entries- vaskitsa noun (Anguis fragilis)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- anvouèt noun (Anguis fragilis)
French
1 entries- orvet noun (Anguis fragilis)
Galician
2 entries- escáncer noun (Anguis fragilis)
- liscanzo noun (Anguis fragilis)
German
3 entries- Blindschleiche noun (Anguis fragilis)
- Hartwurm noun (Anguis fragilis)
- Haselwurm noun (Anguis fragilis)
Hungarian
1 entries- lábatlan gyík noun (Anguis fragilis)
Ingrian
1 entries- vaskimato noun (Anguis fragilis)
Irish
2 entries- earcán noun (Anguis fragilis)
- earcán caoch noun (Anguis fragilis)
Italian
1 entries- orbettino noun (Anguis fragilis)
Korean
1 entries- 유럽무족도마뱀 noun (Anguis fragilis)
Manx
1 entries- ardnieu kyagh noun (Anguis fragilis)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stålorm noun (Anguis fragilis)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- sleve noun (Anguis fragilis)
- slo noun (Anguis fragilis)
- stålorm noun (Anguis fragilis)
Persian
1 entries- کلمره noun (Anguis fragilis)
Polabian
1 entries- snok noun (Anguis fragilis)
Polish
1 entries- padalec noun (Anguis fragilis)
Portuguese
4 entries- alicanço noun (Anguis fragilis)
- cobra-de-vidro noun (Anguis fragilis)
- licanço noun (Anguis fragilis)
- licranço noun (Anguis fragilis)
Romanian
1 entries- năpârcă noun (Anguis fragilis)
Russian
1 entries- верете́ница noun (Anguis fragilis)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- nathair-challtainn noun (Anguis fragilis)
Slovene
1 entries- slepec noun (Anguis fragilis)
Spanish
3 entries- culebrilla de cristal noun (Anguis fragilis)
- enánago noun (Anguis fragilis)
- lución noun (Anguis fragilis)
Swedish
4 entries- blindorm noun (Anguis fragilis)
- blindödla noun (Anguis fragilis)
- kopparorm noun (Anguis fragilis)
- kopparödla noun (Anguis fragilis)
Turkish
1 entries- yılanımsı kertenkele noun (Anguis fragilis)
Volapük
1 entries- rovät noun (Anguis fragilis)
Walloon
3 entries- colevrot noun (Anguis fragilis)
- dizi noun (Anguis fragilis)
- scourlot noun (Anguis fragilis)
Welsh
2 entries- madfall noun (Anguis fragilis)
- neidr ddefaid noun (Anguis fragilis)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
This isn't a snake, but a slowworm.
Source: tatoeba (10619397)
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;[…]
Source: wiktionary
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