Word Finder - snakes

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A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

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• joe blake
• serpent

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A treacherous person.

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Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

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A tool for unclogging plumbing.

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• auger
• plumber's snake

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A tool to aid cable pulling.

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• wirepuller

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A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

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Trouser snake; the penis.

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• trouser snake

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A series of Bézier curves.

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The seventh Lenormand card.

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To follow or move in a winding route.

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The path snaked through the forest.

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• slither
• wind

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To steal slyly.

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He snaked my DVD!

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To clean using a plumbing snake.

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To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

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To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

Yeah, you could get to it, but it would take a while, and you'd be subjecting yourself to thorns, ticks, snakes and about ten miles of the roughest country you can imagine.

The number of recent species of snakes is about 1600.

Australia is rich in snakes, and has more than a hundred different kinds.

Herbs with healing properties were kept in her temple, and also snakes, the usual symbol of the medicinal art.

The animals are few, comprising a land tortoise, the armadillo, a species of boa, several poisonous snakes and some woodcock.

Of the extremely limited Samoan fauna, consisting mainly of an indigenous rat, four species of snakes and a few birds, the most interesting member is the Didunculus strigirostris, a ground pigeon of iridescent greenish-black and bright chestnut plumage, which forms a link between the extinct dodo and the living African Treroninae.

The cave, still called Mavrospelya ("black cave"), was ever afterwards regarded as sacred to Demeter, and in'it, according to information given to Pausanias, there had been set up an image of the goddess, a female form seated on a rock, but with a horse's head and mane, to which were attached snakes and other wild animals.

Venomous snakes abound.

In accordance with this general distribution snakes show a great amount of differentiation with regard to their mode of life and general organization; and from the appearance alone of a snake a safe conclusion can be drawn as to its habits.

No, I suppose the possibility of snakes does pose a bigger threat.

There are several varieties of snakes, of which three species (all vipers) are poisonous.

Of snakes there are about forty distinct species or varieties.

The food of the people consists as a rule of boiled rice with salted fresh or dried fish, salt, sessamum-oil, chillies, onions, turmeric, boiled vegetables, and occasionally meat of some sort from elephant flesh down to smaller animals, fowls and almost everything except snakes, by way of condiment.

Some nine or ten other species of snakes are present, together with an abundance of lizards, including the Varanus, and most species of Mediterranean tortoises are represented.

How many of the snakes relatives lurked in the grass?

You mean they have rattle snakes out here?

How could she have let him talk her into swimming in a creek where snakes slithering around in the nearby bushes?

Sleep didn't come easily that night, and when it finally overtook her, it was filled with snakes and insects - and worse yet, Denton.

There are several snakes, including the viper (Pelias berus).

Several pretty large logs may still be seen lying on the bottom, where, owing to the undulation of the surface, they look like huge water snakes in motion.

She hesitated at the front door, scanning the porch for snakes before she stepped out into the cool evening air.

Most of the snakes in the water are harmless.

She searched the porch for snakes and then stepped outside.

In central Queensland and elsewhere, snakes, both venomous and harmless, are eaten, the head being first carefully smashed to pulp with a stone.

In the eastern portion of the Coastal Plain Region are the cotton rat, rice-field rat, marsh rabbit, big-eared bat, brown pelican, swallow-tailed kite, black vulture and some rattlesnakes and cotton-mouth moccasin snakes, all of which are common farther south; and there are some turtles and terrapins, and many geese, swans, ducks, and other water-fowl.

Snakes are common, an adder, a variegated rock snake and a Hadramut with forty followers about the 13th century.

Snakes are not numerous, and it is said that none is poisonous or vicious.

In addition Cuvier accepts the Linnaean subdivisions of Amphibia-Reptilia for the tortoises, lizards (including crocodiles), salamanders and frogs; and Amphibia-Serpentes for the snakes, apodal lizards and Caeciliae.

The most dreaded by the natives are called " imamba," of which there are at least eight different kinds; these snakes elevate and throw themselves forward, and have been known to pursue a horseman.

Among smaller animals the jerboa and other descriptions of rat, and the wabar or cony are common; lizards and snakes are numerous, most of the latter being venomous.

These characters apply to all snakes, although none are peculiar to them.

If you want me to cook them, you'd better clean them up so they don't look like snakes.

All it does is breed mosquitoes and attract snakes.

Why Alex, I do believe you have a phobia about snakes.

You're not afraid of snakes?

I'm wearing boots and I know to watch out for snakes.

Be sure to wear your gloves, and be careful about snakes.

Through the window the forest invited, but what about snakes?

In fact, it kills poisonous snakes.

All right, but you'd better watch for snakes.

There could be snakes.

I should have realized you had a phobia about snakes.

Among the plants the wild banana, pepper, orange and mangosteen, rhododendron, epiphytic orchids and the palm; among mammals the bats and rats; among birds the cassowary and rifle birds; and among reptiles the crocodile and tree snakes, characterize this element.

Five rather common species are certainly deadly - the death adder, the brown, the black, the superb and the tiger snakes.

The staff of Armenian bishops is reminiscent of that of the West, from which it is apparently derived; that of the vartapeds is encircled at the upper end by one or two snakes.

Baboons and other apes are fairly common and there are several species of snakes.

In the article Lizard attention is drawn to the many characters which make it difficult, if not impossible, to give diagnoses applicable to all lizards and all snakes.

The non-poisonous kinds of ground snakes are the typical and least specialized snakes, and more numerous than any of the other kinds.

The majority are non-poisonous; but the majority of poisonous snakes must be referred to this category.

Poisonous as well as innocuous snakes are represented in this category.