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serpentine 音標拼音: [s'ɚpənt ,ɑɪn] a. 蛇的,層層卷繞的,陰險的,迂回的
n. 蛇紋石,古時候大炮的一種 蛇的,層層卷繞的,陰險的,迂回的蛇紋石,古時候大炮的一種 serpentine adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; " a serpentine wall"; " snaky ridges in the sand" [ synonym: { serpentine}, { snaky}, { snakelike}] Serpentine \ Ser" pen* tine\, n. [ Cf. ( for sense 1) F. serpentine, ( for sense 2) serpentin.] 1. ( Min.) A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent' s skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil- green color. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Serpentine has been largely produced by the alteration of other minerals, especially of chrysolite. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Ordnance) A kind of ancient cannon. [ 1913 Webster]
Serpentine \ Ser" pen* tine\, a. [ L. serpentinus: cf. F. serpentin.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Serpentine \ Ser" pen* tine\, v. i. To serpentize. [ R.] -- Lyttleton. [ 1913 Webster] 223 Moby Thesaurus words for " serpentine": Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Mephistophelian, aberrant, aberrative, acute, affluent, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, bad, batrachian, bent, billowing, billowy, cagey, canny, circuitous, circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, complex, complicated, confluent, conniving, convoluted, convolutional, coursing, crafty, crawling, creeping, crocodilian, crooked, cunning, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, cute, deceitful, decurrent, deep, deep- laid, defluent, demoniac, demonic, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devilish, devious, diabolic, diabolical, diffluent, digressive, diplomatic, discursive, eellike, errant, erratic, evil, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, foxy, froggy, geosynclinal, guileful, gulfy, gushing, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, indented, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine, lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, notched, ophidian, out- of- the- way, pawky, planetary, plotting, politic, pouring, profluent, racing, rambling, ready, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, running, rushing, satanic, saurian, saw- toothed, sawtooth, scheming, scored, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentlike, serpentoid, serrate, serrated, serried, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sluggish, sly, smooth, snake- shaped, snakelike, snaking, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, stray, streaming, subtile, subtle, supple, surging, surgy, swerving, tactical, tidal, toadish, toothed, torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulant, unhallowed, vagrant, veering, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiform, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, vortical, vulpine, wandering, wary, wavy, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag
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