English > serpent: 3 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous. |
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| Synonyms | snake, ophidian |
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| Member of | Serpentes, suborder Serpentes, Ophidia, suborder Ophidia | snakes |
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| Narrower | blind snake, worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
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| colubrid snake, colubrid | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
| constrictor | Any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils |
| elapid, elapid snake | Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres |
| sea snake | Any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail |
| viper | venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw |
| Broader | diapsid, diapsid reptile | reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye |
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| Spanish | culebra, ofidio, serpentes, serpiente, serpientes, sierpe |
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| Catalan | serpent, serp |
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