snakelike

English

Etymology

snake +‎ -like

Adjective

snakelike (comparative more snakelike, superlative most snakelike)

1. Resembling a snake; long, thin and flexible, or waving about in a snake-like manner; snaky.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I could, however, clearly distinguish that the swathed mummy-like form before me was that of a tall and lovely woman, instinct with beauty in every part, and also with a certain snake-like grace which I had never seen anything to equal before.

2. Characteristic of a snake.

   a snakelike forked tongue

Translations

resembling a snake

• Czech: hadovitý (cs)
• Danish: slangeagtig
• Dutch: slangachtig (nl)
• German: schlangenartig
• Macedonian: зми́јолик (zmíjolik), зми́јулест (zmíjulest), зми́ест (zmíest)
• Polish: wężowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: serpentiforme (pt)
• Russian: змееви́дный (ru) (zmejevídnyj), змееподо́бный (ru) (zmejepodóbnyj)
• Ukrainian: змієподі́бний (zmijepodíbnyj), змія́стий (zmijástyj), зміюва́тий (zmijuvátyj)

See also

• anguine
• anguinous
• colubrine
• elapine
• ophidian
• serpentine
• serpentiginous