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Snake vs Squamate - What's the difference?

snake | squamate | Hyponyms |

Snake is a hyponym of squamate.


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 an adjective squamate is

(chiefly|zoology) covered in scales.

As a noun squamate is

any reptile of the order squamata.

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 treacherous person.
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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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    squamate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, zoology) Covered in scales.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 45:
    • The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.

    Synonyms

    * scaly * squamose

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any reptile of the order Squamata.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, Michael J. Benton, The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time, Science citation
    • , passage=In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates , and many other modern groups radiated substantially. }}

    Hyponyms

    * lizard * snake ----