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The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.

The snakebird, 1.

Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.

An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.

The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.

An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.

A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.

A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.

In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

nglish of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. Trumbull.

e septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Snake-shaped.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.