viperine
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of viperine
From the Latin word vīperīnus, dating back to 1540–50. See viper, -ine 1
Example Sentences
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Thick and viperine, the thing looked, as it hurled forward.
From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington
These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg
By far the most numerous are three genera of viperine snakes, including the rattlesnakes and moccasins; all of these have a pit-like depression between the nose and eyes, and hence are called pit-vipers.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
Feoktistow's experiments, made with viper poison, fully bear out the correctness of the writer's theory, besides proving that there is no essential difference between the action of the viperine and colubrine poisons.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by Mueller, A.
Here, among a number of viperine snakes of about the same size, is a snake that lives on eggs.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
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