blacksnake | (noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet | Synonyms: black racer, Coluber constrictor |
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(noun) large harmless shiny black North American snake | Synonyms: black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake |
kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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naked | (adjective) lacking any cover | - |
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(adjective) devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure | Synonyms: raw |
(adjective) (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument | - |
(adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, bare, nude |
(adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: defenseless |
nakedly | (adverb) without clothing | - |
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(adverb) in an exposed manner; without protection or defense | - |
nakedness | (noun) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | Synonyms: openness |
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(noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nudeness, nudity |
(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, desolation |
nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
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(noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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snake | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: ophidian, serpent |
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(noun) something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake | - |
(noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake |
(noun) a deceitful or treacherous person | Synonyms: snake in the grass |
(verb) move along a winding path | - |
(verb) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake | - |
(verb) form a snake-like pattern | - |
snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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snakebird | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, darter |
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snakebite | (noun) a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake | - |
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snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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snakefish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: lizardfish, snake-fish |
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snakefly | (noun) predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax | - |
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snakehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, turtlehead |
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snakelike | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snaky |
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snakeroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: sanicle |
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(noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather |
snakeweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed |
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snakewood | (noun) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents | Synonyms: Rauwolfia serpentina |
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spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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whipsnake | (noun) any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails | Synonyms: whip-snake, whip snake |
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