1. Limbless, elongated reptile with scales; some species are venomous
   "Ophidians, or snakes, have evolved a wide variety of hunting and defence mechanisms";
   - serpent, ophidian
    
2. A deceitful or treacherous person
   "He discovered too late that his business partner was a snake in the grass who had been embezzling funds";
   - snake in the grass
    
3. Something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
   "The garden hose looked like a green snake coiled on the lawn"
    
4. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
   "The plumber used a plumber's snake to clear the clogged drain";
   - plumber's snake, auger

1. Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
   "The river snaked through the valley"
    
2. Form a snake-like pattern
   "The river snakes through the valley"
    
3. Move along a winding path
   "The army snaked through the jungle"

1. A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
   - Snake River
    
2. A long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
   - Hydra

Derived forms: snaking, snakes, snaked

Type of: article, bad person, constellation, curve, diapsid, diapsid reptile, glide, hand tool, meander, object, physical object, river, thread, twist, wander, weave, wind[2]

Part of: Beaver State, Equality State, Evergreen State, Gem State, ID, Id., Idaho, Ophidia, OR, Ore., Oregon, Serpentes, suborder Ophidia, suborder Serpentes, WA, Wash., Washington, WY, Wyo., Wyoming

Encyclopedia: Snake, Joseph