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(n)
Any species of the suborder Serpentes; a snake or serpent.
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(derogatory, informal) A hidden enemy.
(now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
(fantasy) A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed.
A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
a river located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
(countable) The bite of a snake.
A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
(informal, uncountable, sometimes slightly vulgar) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
An achromatic colour between black and white.
A penis sheath worn by tribesmen in parts of the Pacific.
(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
(countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
(derogatory) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
A person who participates in races, especially an athlete.
An act of something being smuggled.
Someone from Warrington.
Someone who betrays, or reveals confidential information; a squealer or informer.
(adj)
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.
Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.
A telescopic baton manufactured by this company.
A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
(informal) Alternative form of ace (“excellent”). [(UK, slang) Excellent.]
A charming person; one who charms or seduces; a smoothie.
(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
Any of various colubrid snakes of the genus Lampropeltis.
A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
(countable) Any large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. [from 19th c.]
Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
A semiaquatic venomous snake native to the southeastern United States, Agkistrodon piscivorus.
A venomous pit viper, Lachesis muta, from tropical America.
Alternative spelling of snaky. [Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.]
Pituophis catenifer sayi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the central United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada.
(chiefly US, informal) A rattlesnake.
The act or action of one who slithers.
Alternative form of water snake. [A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.]
An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
(US) A long, tapering whip.
A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
That slithers; that moves like a snake.
(informal) A red-bellied woodpecker.
(bodybuilding, slang) Large and well-developed muscles in the upper arm.
The skin of a snake
Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.
Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America.
Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
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the debut studio album by the British rock and pop band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released on 12 October 1984 by Polydor Records.
(zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
A hognose snake.
Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
"Lizards" is the second episode of the second season of the NBC superhero drama series Heroes.
A limestone rubble.
Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
Alternative form of non-venomous. [Not producing venom.]
the debut album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.
(zoology) Of or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles).
Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
a German hard rock band formed in Hanover in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker.
a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in March 1943.
Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia.
Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae.