serpent /sûrˈpənt/

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

Serpentlike

serpentiform /-pentˈ/ adjective

Snake-shaped

serˈpentine /-tīn/ adjective

1. Snakelike
2. Winding
3. Tortuous

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

1. To wind
2. 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

1. Of serpentine
2. Winding

serˈpentize or serˈpentise intransitive verb

To wind

To cause to wind

serˈpentlike adjective and adverb

• puncture
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• puncturer
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• pundigrion
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• pundit
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• pundonor
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• pungence
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• pungency
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• Punic
• Punica
• Punicaceae