snake

noun

1. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

Similar word(s): ophidian, serpent

Definition categories: animal, diapsid

2. a deceitful or treacherous person

Definition categories: person

3. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Definition categories: object

4. a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

Similar word(s): hydra

Definition categories: object

5. something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

Definition categories: man–made, object

6. a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

Similar word(s): auger

Definition categories: man–made, snake

verb

1. move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

Definition categories: motion, glide

2. form a snake-like pattern

- The river snakes through the valley

Definition categories: stative, curve, twist, wind

3. move along a winding path

- The army snaked through the jungle

Definition categories: motion, meander, thread, wander, weave, wind