sea snake

noun

any of several venomous marine snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a finlike tail.

Origin of sea snake

First recorded in 1745–55

Words Nearby sea snake

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How to use sea snake in a sentence

Some of the Pacific islands, like Tuvalu, Nauru, and Kiribati, don’t have land snakes but do have local sea snakes.
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In the meantime this sea-snake passed by us, and we were obliged to tack the vessel about, in order to get nearer to it.
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Mr. J. Ramus records a large sea-snake which was seen in 1687 by many people in Dramsfiorden.
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I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom (but one must sleep or die, like Southeys sea-snake in Kehama) at twelve.
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There wasn't no threshin' around and flurryin', but the vicious brute acted just like some kind of a sea-snake.
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In the meantime the sea-snake passed by us, and we were obliged to tack the vessel about in order to get nearer to it.
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British Dictionary definitions for sea snake

sea snake

noun

any venomous snake of the family Hydrophiidae, of tropical seas, that swims by means of a laterally compressed oarlike tail

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