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water-serpent ? Obs.
1. = water-snake. Also = sea-serpent.
1530Palsgr. 287/1 Water serpent, couleuure deaue. 1538Elyot Dict., Echidna, a water serpent. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 40 Professor Frank, of Frankenau, speaks of a still larger species of water-serpents. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air i. §2 Hercules killed a water-serpent.
2. (With capital initials.) The constellation Hydra.
1599T. Hill Sch. Skill 23 The image named the Water Serpent, hath 25. stars. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vi. iii. 128 The Water-Serpent hath 15 Stars.
†3. A plant of the genus Moringa. Obs.
[1649–51F. Hernandez Nova Plant. etc. Mex. iv. xxv. 119 De Coatli, seu Aqueo serpente (description follows).] 1659Lovell Herball 541 Water serpent, Coatlis, Aqueus serpens. |