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Definition of Snakelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a serpent in form. "Snaky ridges in the sand"
Definition of Snakelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a snake. Long, thin and flexible; waving about in a snake-like manner. ¹
2. Adjective. Like that of a snake; as, a snakelike tongue ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snakelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snakelike
Literary usage of Snakelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Real Analysis by Andrew M. Bruckner, Judith B. Bruckner, Brian S. Thomson (1997)
"A set SCU is called snakelike if for each e > 0 there exists a finite ... (d)
Prove that an arc in U is snakelike. A continuum is indecomposable if it ..."
2. Variabilität und Vererbung am Zentralnervensystem des Menschen und einiger by Hans Driesch, Hal George Evarts, Johann Paul Karplus (1921)
"A snakelike destroyer fastened on the neck of the hen grouse. ... The mouth also
was snakelike, seeming to split the head clear to the ears, and opened to ..."
3. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs, Alfred Plummer (1920)
"Gunkel on Gen.3 iii. i maintains that the text there implies that originally the
serpent was an evil demon hostile to God and man and possessing a snakelike ..."
4. Heraldry as Art: An Account of Its Development and Practice, Chiefly in England by George William Eve (1907)
"In continental heraldry the dragon has but one pair ol legs and behind them the
body diminishing into a snakelike tail, which sometimes terminates in a ..."
5. The Story of the Fishes by James Newton Baskett (1899)
"D. Body long and snakelike ; no ventral fins. (It is one of the) EELS (10). DD.
Body not snakelike ; ventrals present. E. Pive rows of bony plates on body; ..."
6. The Story of the Fishes by James Newton Baskett (1899)
"D. Body long and snakelike ; no ventral fins. (It is one of the) EELS (10). DD.
Body not snakelike ; ventrals present. E. Five rows of bony plates on body ..."
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