Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a serpent; serpentine; ophidian in structure or affinity; snake-like: said chiefly of reptiles which are not serpents, but resemble them: as, a serpentiform lizard or amphibian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a serpent.
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- adjective Having the form of a
serpent .
Etymologies
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Latin serpens a serpent + -form.
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Barnes et al. (1985) even went so far as to describe Acrophoca as ‘serpentiform’ (p. 41).
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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