sea-snaken.
1. = sea-serpent n. 1b.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > aquatic monster or serpent
nickerOE
cetec1220
dragona1340
serra1449
hurlpool1553
afanc1573
orcc1590
sea monster1600
Hydrus1667
sea-dragon1749
kraken1755
sea-snake1755
Midgard1770
the (great) sea-serpent1774
sea-worm1799
taniwha1840
makara1873
Mamlambo1919
lau1923
Ogopogo1926
1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 195 The Soe Ormen, the Sea-Snake, Serpens Marinus Magnus..is a wonderful and terrible Sea-monster.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. xxii. 180 Of that sea-snake, tremendous curled, Whose monstrous circle girds the world.
1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 79 Where the wind is a stranger, And the sea-snake hath life.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Mermaid in Poems 28 That great seasnake under the sea.
2. = sea-serpent n. 1a.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
worm-kinc893
slow-wormOE
hagworm?c1475
salpege1569
scytale1572
house snake1608
porphyre1608
ellops1667
sea-serpent1672
tree-serpent1731
boyuna1763
whip-snake1774
garter-snake1775
switch-snake1791
argus-snake1802
rat snake1818
skaapsteker1818
sea-snake1827
short-tail1879
roof-snake1884
brown snake1896
herald-snake1910
night snake1918
parrot snake1931
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > aquatic
water addereOE
rinatrixa1398
water snake1527
water serpent1530
sea-adder1601
hydra1608
sea-serpent1672
water viper1737
sea-snake1827
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > member of family Hydrophidae
water snake1527
water serpent1530
hydra1608
sea-serpent1672
sea-snake1827
Hydrus1838
1827 J. S. Buckingham Trav. Mesopotamia 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.
1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. xiii. 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.
1887 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 197/2 Of Sea Snakes (Hydrophidæ) some fifty species are known.
3. = A chain of salps. Cf. sea-serpent n. 4.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Molluscoidea > [noun] > division Tunicata > class Thaliacea > order Salpida > genus Salpa > chain of
sea-snake1863
sea-serpent1891
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 442 Sailors often call these chains of Salpæ by the name of Sea Snakes.
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