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τυφλ-ίνης or τυφλῖνος ὄφις, ὁ, a
A.blind snake, perh. Pseudopus pallasi, “τυφλίναι ὄφεις” Arist.HA567b25; -ίνοις ὄφεσιν ib. 604b25: called τυφλώψ in Nic.Th.492, Ael.NA8.13 (on the accent, v. Hdn.Gr.2.66); τυφλίας and τυφλών in Hsch. (unless these are errors for τυφλίνας, τυφλώψ); τυφλιης, τυφλίς, and τυφαις = caeciola, caecilia, ciccola, Gloss. (fort. τυφλίνης, τυφλίας）; τυφλείας = caecula, ib.:—cf. κωφίας.
II. τυφλῖνος, ὁ, a Nile fish, Marc.Sid.25, Hsch.; also τυφλίνης （τυφλῆνις, τυφλενες codd.) Artem.4.56; τύφλην (nom.) Ath.7.312b: Dim. τυφλινίδιον , τό, Xenocr. ap. Orib.2.58.152 (-φλην-codd.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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