| 单词 | arrow snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarrow snake ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake) dart1591 darter1608 dart-serpent1608 arrow snake1611 dart-snake1694 shoot-serpent1731 javelin-snake1835 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlix. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path. [margin reads] arrowsnake . View more context for this quotation a1667 G. Hughes Analyt. Expos. Bk. Moses (1672) 593/1 The word here [sc. in Genesis 49:17] rendred Adder or arrow snake, is no where used but here, now this is the disposition of this tribe foretold, to be subtil and cunning as the Serpent, in dealing with adversaries. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 88/2 The Hebrew denomination Kippoz [Isa. xxxiv. 15]..which the learned Bochart..has shown to refer more properly to the acontias or anguis jaculus, the arrow or dart-snake of the Greeks and Romans. ?1868 J. Duns Biblical Nat. Sci. II. 84 Arrow-snake was a name given by some old naturalists to such so-called serpents as moved quickly, or darted with great suddenness and speed on their prey. < as lemmas |
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