Snake vs Serpens - What's the difference?
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A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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A treacherous person.
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A tool for unclogging plumbing.
A tool to aid cable pulling.
(slang) A trouser snake; the penis.
To follow or move in a winding route.
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(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
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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 .
(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.
As nouns the difference between snake and serpens
is that snake is a legless reptile of the sub-order serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue while serpens is a serpent, snake.As a verb snake
is to follow or move in a winding route.snake
English
(wikipedia snake)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (reptile) joe blake, serpent * (plumbing tool) auger, plumber's snake * (tool for cable pulling) wirepullerDerived terms
* snakebite * snake in the grass * snake oilVerb
(snak)- The path snaked through the forest.
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- The river snakes through the valley.
- He snaked my DVD!
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- (Bartlett)
