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1. (n.) snake
any limbless, scaly, elongate reptile of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species.
2. snake
a treacherous person; an insidious enemy.
3. snake
(in plumbing) a device for dislodging obstructions in curved pipes, having a head fed into the pipe at the end of a flexible metal band.
4. (v.i.) snake
to move, twist, or wind in the manner of a snake:
The road snakes among the mountains.
5. (v.t.) snake
to wind or make (one's course, way, etc.) in the manner of a snake.
6. snake
to haul, esp. by a chain or rope, as a log.
Etymology: (1785–95, Amer.)
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1. (noun) snake, serpent, ophidian
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
2. (noun) snake, snake in the grass
a deceitful or treacherous person
3. (noun) Snake, Snake River
a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
4. (noun) Hydra, Snake
a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
5. (verb) snake
something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
6. (verb) snake
move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
7. (verb) snake
form a snake-like pattern
"The river snakes through the valley"
8. (verb) snake
move along a winding path
"The army snaked through the jungle"
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1. (noun) snake
a long, thin reptile with no legs
Some snakes are poisonous.
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1. (noun) Snake
any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent
2. (verb) Snake
to drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out
3. (verb) Snake
to wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm
4. (verb) Snake
to crawl like a snake
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Sense: any of a group of legless reptiles with long bodies that move along on the ground with a twisting movement, many of which have a poisonous bite
He was bitten by a snake and nearly died.
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 Afrikaans: slang |
 Arabic: حَيَّه، ثُعْبان |
 Bulgarian: змия |
 Brazilian: cobra |
 Czech: had |
 German: die Schlange |
 Danish: slange |
 Greek: φίδι |
 Spanish: serpiente |
 Estonian: madu, nõeluss |
 Farsi: مار |
 Finnish: käärme |
 French: serpent |
 Hebrew: נָחָש |
 Hindi: सांप, सापिन, सर्प, सार्पि |
 Croatian: zmija, guja |
 Hungarian: kígyó |
 Indonesian: ular |
 Icelandic: snákur |
 Italian: serpente |
 Japanese: へび |
 Korean: 뱀 |
 Lithuanian: gyvatė |
 Latvian: čūska |
 Malay: ular |
 Dutch: slang |
 Norwegian: slange, orm |
 Polish: wąż |
 Persian: مار |
 Pashto: مار، منګور: چالاك، ټګ |
 Portuguese: cobra |
 Romanian: şarpe |
 Russian: змея |
 Slovak: had |
 Slovenian: kača |
 Serbian: zmija |
 Swedish: orm |
 Thai: งู |
 Turkish: yılan |
 Taiwanese: 蛇 |
 Ukrainian: гадюка, змія |
 Urdu: سانپ |
 Vietnamese: con rắn |
 Chinese: 蛇 |
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