ANGUIS Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the word anguis. (close relations)
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| adder | nounn | |||||
noun • a person who adds numbers • a machine that adds numbers • small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia | ||||||
| asp | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder • cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death | ||||||
| boa | nounn | |||||
noun • a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur • any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs | ||||||
| cobra | nounn | |||||
noun • venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood | ||||||
| constrictor | nounn | |||||
noun • any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | ||||||
| dragon | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus • a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings • a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman • any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body | ||||||
| mamba | nounn | |||||
noun • arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | ||||||
| python | nounn | |||||
noun • large Old World boas • (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi • a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language for computers created by Guido van Rossum • a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit | ||||||
| rattlesnake | nounn | |||||
noun • pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | ||||||
| reptile | nounn | |||||
noun • any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | ||||||
| serpent | nounn | |||||
noun • limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous • a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited • an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | ||||||
| snake | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous • a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition • a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer • a deceitful or treacherous person • something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake • a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes verb • move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake • form a snake-like pattern • move along a winding path | ||||||
| viper | nounn | |||||
noun • venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw | ||||||
| worm | nounn | |||||
noun • any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae • a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect • a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network • screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack verb • to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | ||||||
| genus anguis | nounn | |||||
noun • type genus of the Anguidae: blindworms | ||||||
