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Cerastes :: Cerastes (n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper..

Anaconda :: Anaconda (n.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon..

Terrestrial :: Terrestrial (a.) Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents..

Ophiuchus :: Ophiuchus (n.) A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; -- called also Serpentarius..

Serpentarius :: Serpentarius (n.) A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus..

Worm :: Worm (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like..

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent..

Snakeroot :: Snakeroot (n.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these..

Serpentine :: Serpentine (n.) A kind of ancient cannon.

Picrolite :: Picrolite (n.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.

Snakewood :: Snakewood (n.) An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent..

Serpentize :: Serpentize (v. i.) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine..

Serpenting :: Serpenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serpen.

Bom :: Bom (n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes..

Dipsas :: Dipsas (n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

Ophiolatry :: Ophiolatry (n.) The worship of serpents.

Adder :: Adder (n.) A serpent.

Engouled :: Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled..

Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..

Serpentine :: Serpentine (v. i.) To serpentize.

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