noun
- Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous.
- A deceitful or treacherous person.
- synonyms: snake in the grass
- A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- synonyms: Snake River
- A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer.
- synonyms: Hydra
- Something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake.
verb
- Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake.
- Form a snake-like pattern.
- usage: "The river snakes through the valley"
- Move along a winding path.
- usage: "The army snaked through the jungle"
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