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sea-snake
1. = sea-serpent 1 b.
1755tr. Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 195 The Soe Ormen, the Sea-Snake, Serpens Marinus Magnus..is a wonderful and terrible Sea-monster. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxii, Of that Sea-Snake, tremendous curl'd Whose monstrous circle girds the world. 1817Byron Manfred i. i. 79 Where the wind is a stranger, And the sea-snake hath life. 1830Tennyson Mermaid 23 That great sea-snake under the sea.
2. = sea-serpent 1 a.
1827Buckingham Trav. Mesopot. I. 446 note, Dampier met with sea-snakes about four feet long, four fingers broad, flat tail, and spotted with yellow, on the coast of New Holland. 1860G. Bennett Gatherings Naturalist Austral. 278 Two Sea-Snakes, caught on the coasts of Australia, are both venomous. One is the Platurus laticaudatus, of a bluish colour with black rings,..and the other is the Pelamis bicolor. 1887Günther in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 197/2 Of Sea Snakes (Hydrophidæ) some fifty species are known.
3. = A chain of salps. Cf. sea-serpent 4.
1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 442 Sailors often call these chains of Salpæ by the name of Sea Snakes. |