Meanings (ES + gloss)
culebra • serpiente • sierpe • víbora
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
víbora
A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer
Phrases
Aesculapian snakeBig Bend patchnose snakeBoettger's two-headed snakeChinese snake gourdCongo snakeDe Kay's brown snakeDe Kay's snakeFutsing wolf snakeGould's hooded snakeGreat Plains rat snakeJamaican blind snakeJapanese snake blennyJavan tubercle snakeJewnited SnakesSnakeSnake IslandSnake PassSnake RangeSnake RiverTexas blind snakeTexas garter snakeUlmer's reed snakeaesculapian snakeantisnakearrow snakeas mad as a cut snakeball snakebastard horn snakebeer snakeblack pepper snakeblack snakeblacksnakeblind snakeblood snakeblow snakeblue-bellied black snakebrown snakebull snakebullsnakecarpet snake