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1. Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
   - serpent, ophidian
    
2. A deceitful or treacherous person
   - snake in the grass
    
3. Something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

1. Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
    
2. Form a snake-like pattern
   "The river snakes through the valley"
    
3. Move along a winding path
   "The army snaked through the jungle"

1. A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
   - Snake River
    
2. A long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
   - Hydra

Derived forms: snaking, snaked, snakes

See also: anguine, snaky

Type of: bad person, constellation, curve, diapsid, diapsid reptile, glide, meander, object, physical object, river, thread, twist, wander, weave, wind, wind[2]

Part of: Beaver State, Equality State, Evergreen State, Gem State, ID, Idaho, Ophidia, OR, Oregon, Serpentes, suborder Ophidia, suborder Serpentes, WA, Washington, WY, Wyoming

Encyclopedia: Snake