snake
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snake/sneɪk/
▶noun
- 1 a predatory reptile with a long slender limbless supple body, many kinds of which have a venomous bite. [Suborder Ophidia: many species.]
- 2 (also snake in the grass) a treacherous or deceitful person.
- 3 (in full plumber's snake) a long flexible wire for clearing obstacles in piping.
– origin OE snaca, of Gmc origin.
'snake' also found in these Oxford entries:
adder
- anaconda
- anguine
- aspic
- back-fanged
- bite
- blind snake
- boa
- boomslang
- bull snake
- coachwhip
- cobra
- colubrid
- colubrine
- constrict
- constrictor
- copperhead
- coral snake
- corn snake
- cribo
- culverin
- cyclone
- death adder
- dugite
- eel
- fang
- fritillary
- front-fanged
- Gaboon viper
- garter snake
- glass lizard
- grass snake
- green snake
- hognose snake
- hydra
- indigo snake
- keelback
- kundalini
- mamba
- ophidian
- ophiolite
- ophiuroid
- pit viper
- puff adder
- python
- racer
- rat snake
- scorzonera
- sea snake
- serpent
