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snake | narwhal |

As a proper noun snake

is (video games) an early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.

As a noun narwhal is

, an arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.

snake

English

(wikipedia snake)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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  • A tool for unclogging plumbing.
  • A tool to aid cable pulling.
  • (slang) A trouser snake; the penis.

    • Synonyms

    * (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepuller

    Derived terms

    * snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oil

    Verb

    (snak)
  • To follow or move in a winding route.
    • The path snaked through the forest.
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    The river snakes through the valley.
  • (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
    • He snaked my DVD!
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  • To clean using a plumbing snake.
  • (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out .
    • (Bartlett)
  • (nautical) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (move in a winding path) slither, wind

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

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    narwhal

    English

    (wikipedia narwhal) (Monodon monoceros)

    Alternative forms

    * narwal, narwhale

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • , an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.
  • * 1986 , D. E. Sergeant, Chapter 16: Sea Mammals'', I. P. Martini (editor), ''Canadian Inland Seas , page 337,
    • Moreover, both narwhals and bowheads can occur in late summer in southern Prince Regent Inlet (coming from Lancaster Sound) and may reach Fury and Hecla Strait and northern Foxe Basin.
  • * 1988 , Tristan Jones, Somewheres East of Suez , unnumbered page,
    • Often, in the morning, narwhals' played around the boat and reminded me of the dolphins, so far away in the North Atlantic. But these '''narwhals''' were not like the Atlantic sea-dogs; they had little of their flashing vibrancy; these Turkish ' narwhals were much more relaxed, and rolled over lazily, with a sigh, as if they were going to retire to a sofa and smoke a hookah.
  • * 2000 , Richard C. Connor, Andrew J. Read, Richard Wrangham, 10: Male Reproductive Strategies and Social Bonds'', Janet Mann (editor), ''Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales , page 247,
    • At over 2.5 m in length, the tusk of the male narwhal (Monodon monoceros ) is one the most impressive instruments of male-male competition among mammals.

    Synonyms

    * sea unicorn

    Derived terms

    * narwhalian, narwalian