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Definition of Dipsas
1. n. A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Definition of Dipsas
1. a fabled serpent [n DIPSADES]
Medical Definition of Dipsas
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1. A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipsas
Literary usage of Dipsas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1858)
"dipsas, Auct. Body and tail generally compressed, elongate; head much depressed,
triangular, ... Adult: not good state. Asia. Old Collection. 2. dipsas ..."
2. Endymion, the Man in the Moon: Played Before the Queen's Majesty at by John Lyly (1894)
"435 dipsas. I will undertake it, and overtake ' him, that* all his love shall be
doubted of, and therefore become desperate : but this will wear out with ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(S) dipsas, Laurent.—BUNGARUS, Oppel. The body compressed, much narrower than
the head; scales of the spinal range larger than the others, a circumstance ..."
4. The Works of Lucian of Samosata: Complete with Exceptions Specified in the by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1905)
"H. dipsas, THE THIRST-SNAKE THE southern parts of Libya are all deep sand and
parched soil, a desert of wide extent that produces nothing, one vast plain ..."
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