snake

Nouns

  • (n) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous ophidian, serpent,
  • (n) a deceitful or treacherous person snake in the grass,
  • (n) a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition Snake River,
  • (n) a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer Hydra,
  • (n) something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

Verbs

  • (v) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
  • (v) form a snake-like pattern
    • The river snakes through the valley
  • (v) move along a winding path
    • The army snaked through the jungle

Synonyms

ophidian serpent snake in the grass Snake River Hydra

Words of close approximity

snaky
snag snap
snack snafu snail snaky snare snarf snarl
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