英语词汇“serpentinization”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

serpentinization

释义

serpent /sûrˈpənt/

noun

Formerly, any reptile or creeping thing, esp if venomous
(with the) Satan as the tempter (Bible)
A snake (literary and dialect)
A treacherous or malicious person
A wooden leather-covered wind instrument shaped like a writhing snake
A firework that writhes like a serpent when ignited
(with cap) a northern constellation

adjective

Serpentlike

ORIGIN: L serpēns, -entis, prp of serpere to creep; cf Gr herpein

serpentiform /-pentˈ/ adjective

Snake-shaped

serˈpentine /-tīn/ adjective

Snakelike
Winding
Tortuous

noun

A winding track
An old kind of cannon
A soft, usu green mineral, a hydrated magnesium silicate, occurring in winding veins and in masses, formed by alteration of olivine, etc
A rock, commonly an altered peridotite, composed mainly of the mineral serpentine

transitive verb and intransitive verb

To wind
To insinuate

serˈpentinely adverb

serpentinic /-tinˈik/ adjective

serˈpentīning noun and adjective

serpentiˈningly adverb

serpentinite /-penˈ/ noun

A rock composed mainly of serpentine

serpentinizāˈtion or serpentinisāˈtion noun

serˈpentinize or serˈpentinise transitive verb

To convert into serpentine

serpentīˈnous adjective

Of serpentine
Winding

serˈpentize or serˈpentise intransitive verb

To wind

transitive verb

To cause to wind

serˈpentlike adjective and adverb

serˈpentry noun (rare)

Serpents collectively

serˈpent-eater noun

The secretary bird
The markhor

serpent god or serpent goddess noun

A deity in the form of a snake
A deified snake

serpentine verse noun

A line that begins and ends with the same word (from the figure of a snake with its tail in its mouth, common as a symbol of eternity)

serˈpent-lizˈard noun

The lizard Seps

serˈpent-star noun

A brittlestar

serˈpent-stone noun

An ammonite
A snake-stone

serˈpent-worship noun

the old serpent

Satan

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