ANGUIS Synonyms

• of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder

• cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death

• a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur

• any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs

• venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood

• any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils

• a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

• a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

• a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

• any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

• arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal

• large Old World boas

• (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi

• a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language for computers created by Guido van Rossum

• a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit

• pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken

• any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

• an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

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

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• a deceitful or treacherous person

• something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

• a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

• move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

• form a snake-like pattern

• move along a winding path

• venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw

• any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network

• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• type genus of the Anguidae: blindworms