Word Meanings - VIPERINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. Viperine snake. Any venomous snake of the family Viperidæ. A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles

Additional info about word: VIPERINE

Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. Viperine snake. Any venomous snake of the family Viperidæ. A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles the viper in color.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• VIPEROIDEA; VIPEROIDES
  A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.
• HARMLESS
  1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt;
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• VIPER
  Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidæ. There came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. Acts xxviii. 3. Note: Among the best-known species
• SNAKE'S-HEAD
  The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. Dr. Prior. Snake's-head iris , an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SNAKEHEAD
  1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car. The turtlehead. The Guinea-hen flower.
• VENOMOUS
  Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake , any serpent which has poison glands and fangs,
• VIPERISH
  Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• COLOR
  An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• BEADSNAKE
  A small poisonous snake of North America , banded with yellow, red, and black.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• WATER-COLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• DECOLOR
  To deprive of color; to bleach.
• HOGNOSESNAKE
  A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.