snake


Definition: Meaning of, snake in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / sneɪk /

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snake snakes
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  1. an animal with a long thin body and no legs, that often has a poisonous bite
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  2. also snake in the grass informal someone who cannot be trusted
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
snake snaked snaked
Present Participle Third Person Singular
snaking snakes
[intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
  1. if a river, road, train, or line snakes somewhere, it moves in long, twisting curves
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Snake


Definition: Meaning of, Snake in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / sneɪk /

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  1. a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
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  2. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Snake used in phrases

  • African coral snake (noun)
    1. small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange
  • Asian coral snake (noun)
    1. of India
  • Australian coral snake (noun)
    1. small venomous but harmless snake marked with black-and-white on red
  • Indian rat snake (noun)
    1. enter buildings in pursuit of prey
  • New World coral snake (noun)
    1. any 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 (noun)
    1. any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia
  • Snake River (noun)
    1. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Sonoran lyre snake (noun)
    1. of desert regions of southwestern North America
  • Western ribbon snake (noun)
    1. yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics
  • banded sand snake (noun)
    1. a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it 'swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes
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