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Definition of Sea snake
1. Noun. Any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom.
Definition of Sea snake
1. Noun. Any of several snakes, of the family ''Hydrophiidae'', that live in the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea snake
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Snake
Literary usage of Sea snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"sea snake stranded in the Orkneys proved to be a Shark. — Dr. Barclay's Memoir.
— Sir Everard Home's Opinion.— Sea Serpent of Hebrides, 1808. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"Upon this I inquired what was the matter, and was informed that there was a
sea-snake before us. I then ordered the man at the helm to keep to the land ..."
3. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"Sea-snake you to where tail strikes I to side. FIG. 279. Sea-snake. 11. Ti meta,
the nest of the ti (the sun bird, Nectarinia australis, VI. p. 8), Mer. ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1846)
"A new genus of Sea-Snake from Port Essington. By JE GEAY, FRS THE snake here
described formed part of the extensive collection brought home by Mr. Jukes, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"The Sea- Snake, it is said, possesses a very quick scent, and has been observed
to fly from the smell of castor. On this account, the Norwegian fishermen, ..."
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