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"word": "serpentry"
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"word": "serpopard"
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"word": "serpent cucumber"
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"word": "serpent eagle"
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"word": "serpent-eater"
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"word": "serpent gourd"
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"word": "serpent-grass"
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"word": "serpent radish"
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"word": "serpent star"
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"word": "serpent's tongue"
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"word": "serpentwood"
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"5": "snake, serpent"
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"2": "adder"
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"tags": [
"plural"
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"word": "reptile"
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"word": "Airavata"
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"word": "amaru"
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"word": "amphiptere"
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{
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"word": "amphisbaena"
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"word": "Da"
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{
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"word": "ouroboros"
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"word": "sea serpent"
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"word": "Pharaoh's serpent"
}
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"word": "rattle"
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"word": "snakeskin"
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"word": "spire"
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"word": "Serpens"
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"tags": [
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"word": "serpentiform"
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"tags": [
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"word": "serpentigenous"
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"word": "serpentine"
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"ref": "1712, A. Hill, chapter 9, in The Book of Ecclesiastes Paraphrased. A Divine Poem., Newcastle upon Tyne: J. White, page 38",
"text": "He falls into it, who has digg'd a Pit.\nWho breaks a Hedge is with a Serpent bit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1879, Charles H. Eden, chapter III, in Ula, in Veldt and Laager: A Tale of the Zulus., copyright edition, Hamburg: Karl Grädener, page 45",
"text": "Coiled up behind the shrub, […] was a green imamba, the most dreaded of all South African serpents.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1946 October, Archibald Rutledge, “Along Nature's Trail”, in Boys' Life, volume 36, number 10, Boy Scouts of America, Inc., →ISSN, page 40",
"text": "Any serpent six feet long looks formidable; and over that length, one takes on the aspect of a chimera.",
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"A snake, especially a large or dangerous one."
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],
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"(now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one."
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṯuʕbān",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ثُعْبَان"
},
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ḥanaš",
"sense": "snake",
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"word": "حَنَش"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥayya",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حَيَّة"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔafʕā",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "أَفْعَى"
},
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"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tiʕbān",
"sense": "snake",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "تعبان"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ōj",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "օձ"
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "ilan"
},
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"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "naer"
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"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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"word": "sarpant"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zmija",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "змия"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "serpent"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "snake",
"word": "serp"
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "se⁴",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "蛇"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shé",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "蛇"
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"code": "chk",
"lang": "Chuukese",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "serepenit"
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{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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"word": "had"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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"word": "slange"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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"word": "serpent"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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"word": "slang"
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"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "ḥfꜣw",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "H-f:Aw-w-I14"
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "addere"
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "naddere"
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"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "nædre"
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{
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"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "nǣddre"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "serpento"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "käärme"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "serpent"
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"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sarpint"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "serpe"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bicha"
},
{
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gveli",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "გველი"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schlange"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Wurm"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "erpetó",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ερπετό"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fídi",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "φίδι"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "óphis",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ὄφις"
},
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "herpetón",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "ἑρπετόν"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nakhásh",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "נָחָשׁ"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "saraf",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "שָׂרָף"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "kígyó"
},
{
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "höggormur"
},
{
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "naðra"
},
{
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "ular"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "serpente"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "serpe"
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"alt": "へび",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hebi",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "蛇"
},
{
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"code": "ks",
"lang": "Kashmiri",
"roman": "saruph",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "سَرُپھ"
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"code": "ks",
"lang": "Kashmiri",
"roman": "saruf",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "سَرُف"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "baem",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "뱀"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "serpēns"
},
{
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "snake",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "coluber"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "anguis"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "čūska"
},
{
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"code": "lut",
"lang": "Lushootseed",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "bə́c'əc"
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{
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zmíja",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "зми́ја"
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"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ardnieu"
},
{
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aarnieu"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "nākahi"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "coatl"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sèrp"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "ginebig"
},
{
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"code": "om",
"lang": "Oromo",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "bofa"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "mâr",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "مار"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "arbad",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "اربد"
},
{
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schlang"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wąż"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "serpente"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "amaru"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "șarpe"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zmejá",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "змея́"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "sarpa",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "सर्प"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "ahi",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "अहि"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "zmija"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "guja"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "serpiente"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "snake",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "sierpe"
},
{
"_dis1": "63 0 37 0",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "snake",
"word": "joka"
},
{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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