Word Meanings - ECHIDNA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A monster, half maid and half serpent.

Related words: (words related to ECHIDNA)

• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• SERPENTIFORM
  Having the form of a serpent.
• SERPENTINE
  Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid. Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine.
• SERPENT
  Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Note: The serpents are mostly long and slender, and move partly by bending the body into undulations or folds and pressing them against objects, and
• SERPENTINIAN
  See OPHITE
• SERPENTINIZE
  To convert into serpentine. -- Ser`pen*tin`i*za"tion, n.
• SERPENTIZE
  To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.
• SERPENTIGENOUS
  Bred of a serpent.
• MONSTER
  a divine omen, indicating misfortune; akin of monstrare to show, point out, indicate, and monere to warn. See Monition, and cf. 1. Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel. A monster or marvel. Chaucer. 2.
• SEA MONSTER
  Any large sea animal.
• GILA MONSTER
  A large tuberculated lizard native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
• BEMONSTER
  To make monstrous or like a monster. Shak.
• SEA SERPENT
  Any marine snake. See Sea snake.