| 单词 | serpent |
| 释义 | serpent (once / 367 pages) n A serpent is a snake. If you keep a serpent as a pet, you may have to get used to feeding it live mice. While you're probably more likely to use the word snake for this slithery reptile, serpent tends to be the word that shows up in folk tales and mythology. Serpents have represented qualities ranging from evil to fertility to poison throughout history, and even today the symbol of medicine is a staff entwined by a serpent. The Latin root is serpentem, "creeping thing," from serpere, "to creep." WORD FAMILYserpent: serpents USAGE EXAMPLESOf course, as if the Serpent himself were conducting the interview, the questions were slyly adorned with luring compliments. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Born just four months ago, the endangered serpents are among 50 newborns now in the Los Angeles Zoo’s care. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) In Geneva Lake, witnesses saw a creature described as a giant scale-covered sea serpent as recently as the 20th century, Lewis said. Washington Times(Dec 12, 2016) 1n limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous Syn|Hypo|Hyper ophidian, snake colubrid, colubrid snake mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes blind snake, worm snakewormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes constrictorany of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils elapid, elapid snakeany of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres sea snakeany of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom vipervenomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw hoop snakeany of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake, worm snakesmall reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States ring snake, ring-necked snake, ringneck snakeany of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck hognose snake, puff adder, sand viperharmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed leaf-nosed snakeany of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America grass snake, green snakeeither of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color green snakeany of numerous African colubrid snakes racerslender fast-moving North American snakes whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnakeany of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails rat snakeany of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia Arizona elegans, glossy snakenocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales bull snake, bull-snakeany of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes king snake, kingsnakeany of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals garter snake, grass snakeany of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes Tropidoclonion lineatum, lined snakesecretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States Sonora semiannulata, ground snakesmall shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America Haldea striatula, Potamophis striatula, eastern ground snakein some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America water snakeany of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water Storeria occipitamaculata, red-bellied snakeharmless woodland snake of southeastern United States sand snakesmall North American burrowing snake black-headed snakesmall secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina vine snakeslender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia lyre snakemildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America Hypsiglena torquata, night snakenocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico Leptotyphlops humilis, western blind snakeburrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States Drymarchon corais, gopher snake, indigo snakelarge dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico boaany of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs New World coral snake, coral snake, harlequin-snakeany of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America Old World coral snake, coral snakeany of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia Denisonia superba, copperheadvenomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia cobravenomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, rinkhals, spitting snakehighly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet mambaarboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal Acanthophis antarcticus, death addervenomous Australian snake resembling an adder Notechis scutatus, tiger snakehighly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania Australian blacksnake, Pseudechis porphyriacuslarge semiaquatic snake of Australia; black above with red belly kraitbrightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula Oxyuranus scutellatus, taipanlarge highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia Vipera berus, adder, common vipersmall terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia Vipera aspis, asp, asp viperof southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder Bitis arietans, puff adderlarge African viper that inflates its body when alarmed Bitis gabonica, gaboon viperlarge heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely venomous west African viper Cerastes cornutus, cerastes, horned asp, horned viper, sand viperhighly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye pit viperNew World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head diapsid, diapsid reptile reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye 2n a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited Hyper firework, pyrotechnic (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. 3n an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake Hyper cornet, horn, trump, trumpet a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves |
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