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serpent
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[ noun ] (zoology) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)His thirteenth chapter includes many exciting accounts of huge serpents with prodigious strength , but these seem to be given to complete his picture , not to be believed . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread_out like a serpent with two heads . Related terms diapsid blind_snake viper constrictor elapid sea_snake colubrid_snake Serpentes |
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[ noun ] (music) an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
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