Poisonous+snake

  • 31snake — 1 noun (C) 1 an animal with a long thin body and no legs, that often has a poisonous bite 2 an insulting word meaning someone who cannot be trusted 3 snake in the grass informal someone who pretends to be your friend but does something to harm… …

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  • 32snake — An elongated, limbless, scaly reptile of the suborder Ophidia. * * * snake snāk n any of numerous limbless scaled reptiles (suborder Serpentes syn. Ophidia) with a long tapering body and with salivary glands often modified to produce venom which… …

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  • 33snake venom — the poisonous secretion of snakes, containing hemotoxins, hemagglutinins, neurotoxins, leukotoxins, or endotheliotoxins. The venoms of various species have been used as hemostatics …

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  • 34coral snake — noun 1. any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia • Syn: ↑Old World coral snake • Hypernyms: ↑elapid, ↑elapid snake • Hyponyms: ↑Asian coral snake, ↑African coral snake, ↑ …

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  • 35black snake — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : any of several snakes predominantly dark or black in color: as a. : a widely distributed colubrid snake (Coluber constrictor) of No. America that may reach a length of six feet b. : pilot black snake c …

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  • 36The Snake Prince — is an Indian fairy tale, Punjabi story collected by Major Campbell Feroshepore. Andrew Lang included it in The Olive Fairy Book . [Andrew Lang, The Olive Fairy Book , [http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/347.htm The Snake Prince ] ] ynopsisA… …

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  • 37tiger snake — noun highly venomous brown and yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania • Syn: ↑Notechis scutatus • Hypernyms: ↑elapid, ↑elapid snake • Member Holonyms: ↑Notechis, ↑genus Notechis * * * …

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  • 38eastern coral snake — harlequin snake har le*quin snake n. any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, especially the {eastern coral snake}, a small poisonous snake ({Micrurus fulvius} or {Elaps fulvius}),… …

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  • 39harlequin snake — har le*quin snake n. any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, especially the {eastern coral snake}, a small poisonous snake ({Micrurus fulvius} or {Elaps fulvius}), ringed with red… …

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  • 40Sea snake — Taxobox name = Sea snake image caption = Yellow bellied sea snake, Pelamis platurus regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Reptilia ordo = Squamata subordo = Serpentes familia = Elapidae familia authority = Boie,… …

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