Snake vs. Asp — What's the Difference?

Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

Any of several venomous snakes, especially the viper Vipera aspis of southern Europe, the cobra Naja haje of Africa and the Middle East, or the horned viper.

See Shoshone.

(archaic) A water snake.

See Hydra.

A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).

Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous squamate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and flexible jaws.

The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).

A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.

(figurative) An evil person; a snake.

A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. Also called plumber's snake.

A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).

To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.

The aspen tree.

To pull with quick jerks.

Same as Aspen.

To move in a sinuous or gliding manner

A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.

To move with a sinuous motion

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.

A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

Of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder

A treacherous person; a rat.

Cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death

Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

A tool to aid cable pulling.

(Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

(maths) A series of Bézier curves.

(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

An informer; a rat.

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

To steal slyly.

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

(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.

(MLE) To inform; to rat.

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; - often with out.

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.

To crawl like a snake.

Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

A deceitful or treacherous person

A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

Something resembling a snake

Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

Form a snake-like pattern;

Move along a winding path;