Snake vs. Serpentine — 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.

Of or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement; sinuous.

See Shoshone.

Subtly sly and tempting.

See Hydra.

Relating to or associated with serpentinite or soil derived from it.

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

Any of a group of greenish, brownish, or mottled minerals, Mg3Si2O5(OH)4, including chrysotile, a variety of asbestos.

A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.

A metamorphic rock containing serpentine minerals; serpentinite.

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

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.

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

Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.

To pull with quick jerks.

Having the form or shape of a snake.

To move in a sinuous or gliding manner

Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.

To move with a sinuous motion

Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.

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

(historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.

A treacherous person; a rat.

A kind of firework.

Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

A coiled distillation tube.

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

(maths) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea Category:en:Curves

A tool to aid cable pulling.

(equestrian) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.

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

(mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.

(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

(geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.

(maths) A series of Bézier curves.

(archaic) To serpentize; to turn or bend; to meander.

(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid.

An informer; a rat.

A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color.

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

A kind of ancient cannon.

To steal slyly.

To serpentize.

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

Resembling a serpent in form;

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;