How To Use Cerastes In A Sentence
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Dictionary under the word cerastes; and every time that we write one of these letters we are making a faded copy of the old picture.
The Booklover and His Books
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Colubri enim et cerasti nomine diabolus uel antichristus significatur ut est illud quod Iacob patriarcha de Dan filio sua prophetauit dicens: Fiat Dan coluber in uia et cerastes in semita mordet ungulas equi et cadet ascensat eius retro.
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The herpetofauna includes black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis, African puff adder Bitis arietans, west African sand boa Eryx muelleri, sand viper Cerastes cerastes, desert monitor lizard Varanus griseus and various species of gecko.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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Crotalus comes from the Greek crotalon, a rattle or little bell; cerastes means horned, referring to the horns above its eyes.
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Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt.
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Common reptiles in the ecoregion include the horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) and desert varan (Varanus griseus).
North Saharan steppe and woodlands
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Indigenous reptiles include grey monitor lizard Varanus griseus, spiny-tailed lizard, Uromastix thomasi, venomous horned viper Cerastes cerastes and carpet viper Echis coloratus, hooded malpolon Malpolon moilensis, sandsnake Psammophis schokari and cat snake Telescopus dhara.
Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
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Non solum enim coluber antichristus set etiam cerastes uocatur.
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The cerastes hides in the sand so that only its horns show; animals, thinking the horns are food, come close and are killed by the serpent.
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Some are harmless, like the colubers; others are venomous, such as the soy tale, the cerastes, the haje viper, and the asp.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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Common reptiles in the ecoregion include the horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) and desert varan (Varanus griseus).
North Saharan steppe and woodlands
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
Sigh. WMAM.
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM.
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The cerastes is a snake with horns like a ram's on its head; from this it gets its name, for the Greeks call horns kerata.
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The Cerastes, or the Naia haje, or any other venomous species frequenting Arabia, may denote the "serpent of the burning bite" which destroyed the children of Israel.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
Sigh. WMAM.
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
Sigh. WMAM.
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Today, the cerastes survives as a genus of small, venomous vipers, like this crazy-ass Sidewinder Desert Viper, AKA the crotalus cerastes.
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At the halting-place a "cerastes" (Echis carinata, Merr.), so called from the warty hollows over the eyes (?), was brought to me in a water-bag; the bearer transferred it to the spirit-bottle by neatly thrusting a packing-needle through the head.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2
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Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The cerastes is the most flexible of all serpents, so flexible that is seems to have no spine.
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Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt.
Sigh. WMAM.
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The herpetofauna includes black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis, African puff adder Bitis arietans, west African sand boa Eryx muelleri, sand viper Cerastes cerastes, desert monitor lizard Varanus griseus and various species of gecko.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
