What is the meaning of SNAKES. Phrases containing SNAKES
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 A slightly built (boy) criminal used in burglary and housebreaking.
To raise a ruckus.
Lizards is slang for footwear made from dead reprile skin, such as snakeskin or crocodile−skin.
If you were "above snakes,†you were above ground - meaning still alive.
The lower bar in the Junior Ranks Mess at CFB Esquimalt. There are no actual snakes present, but there is a beautiful view of the ocean.
Snakes is Australian slang for urine, to urinate. Snakes is Australian slang for a toilet.
n chutes and ladders. The simple board game in which you roll dice and, depending on which square you land on, you can go whizzing further up the board on ladders or slide down the board on snakes.
Reptiles is slang for footwear made from dead reptile skin, such as snakeskin or crocodile−skin.
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Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
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Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.
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Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
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Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
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Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.
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A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.
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A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
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Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.
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A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.
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A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
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Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.
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A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes.
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A median process on the front part of the neural arch of the vertebrae of most snakes and some lizards, which fits into a fossa, called the zygantrum, on the back part of the arch in front.
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An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.
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Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
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Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
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Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidae; -- so called from their rough tails.
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Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.
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