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UK
/sˈɜːpənt/
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[ US /ˈsɝpənt/ ]
[ US /ˈsɝpənt/ ]
NOUN
- an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
- a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
How To Use serpent In A Sentence
- The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Habitat fragmentation
- It looked like it was made of plaques of imperial jade, not softer serpentine. JADE ISLAND
- The griffin is also used by Saab, and other mythical beasts goaded into service on motor cars must include Alfa Romeo's serpent, Talbot's hunting dog and the Gilbern's Welsh dragon. Badge Engineering
- The bladelike projections behaved like serpents, attacking and recoiling repeatedly. Reap the Whirlwind
- I then knew, by the black cross which I observed on its neck, that it was of the species called aquis, one of the boldest and most venomous of the serpents of that region. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots
- Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
- The volume expansion provides an excellent mechanism to expel and propel fluid products – including hydrocarbons – from the area of serpentinization to seep sites at the crust hydrosphere/atmosphere interface. At it Again
- You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
- How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
- Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area.