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sea snake

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sea snakenoun

    any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom

Wiktionary

  1. sea snakenoun

    Any of several snakes, of the family Hydrophiidae, that live in the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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  1. sea snake

    A sea snake is a type of venomous snake that has adapted to subaquatic lifestyles in tropical and subtropical marine environments. They have several specific physiological adaptations for marine life such as the ability to breathe through their skin, paddle-like tails for swimming, and the ability to eliminate excess salts from their bodies. There are about 70 species of sea snakes, most belonging to the family Hydrophiinae.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sea snake

    any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea snake in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea snake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sea snake in a Sentence

  1. Greg Pauly:

    It was the northernmost sea snake ever documented in the Pacific Coast of North America.

  2. Greg Pauly:

    I never would have thought that a sea snake would wash up that far up north.

  3. Jules Verne:

    It was a big sea snake, but I couldn't quite make it out what kind of snake it was, its head was biting a stone fish close to its tail area, and the fish had a huge bite into the snake.

  4. Rick Trippe:

    I knew the fish would die because the sea snake is highly poisonous, but I knew the snake would also die from the fish's poison if I just left it there.

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