Word Meanings - SERPENTIGENOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bred of a serpent.

SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
SERPENTARIUS
A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
SERPENTRY
1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
SERPENTINOUS
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner.
SERPENTARIA
The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
SERPENTIFORM
Having the form of a serpent.
SERPENTINE
Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid. Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine.
SERPENT
Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Note: The serpents are mostly long and slender, and move partly by bending the body into undulations or folds and pressing them against objects, and
SERPENTINIAN
See OPHITE
SERPENTINIZE
To convert into serpentine. -- Ser`pen*tin`i*za"tion, n.
SERPENTIZE
To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.
SERPENTIGENOUS
Bred of a serpent.
SEA SERPENT
Any marine snake. See Sea snake.