snakelike
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- adjective
- /ˈsneɪklaɪk/
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serpentino
- But the path was overgrown with snakelike roots.
- snakelike lizards
- snakelike tendrils
- snakelike creature
Examples
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Flap-foot (Lialis burtonis), a snakelike, virtually limbless lizard shown here about two times life size, specializes in eating other lizards, which it swallows whole.
Academic text (2006) -
Perhaps you'd like to see how snakelike I can be.
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Snakelike things crawled everywhere down there, but we were too high up to see them clearly.
Fiction book (1991) -
Stretching in green, snakelike bands through Central Asia, tugai was once widespread.
Academic text (2010) -
Long snakelike things slithered over the crumbled stones, hissing as they went.
Fiction book (1991) -
Over a ridge of underwater rock came a moray eel, a snakelike fish that loves to feed on octopus.
Fiction book (1997) -
The garden featured a snakelike path that wound gracefully through the flowers.
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As the dancer moved across the stage, her snakelike movements captivated the audience.
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The engineer designed a snakelike structure that could easily navigate through tight spaces.
Synonyms
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Winding and twisting like a snake
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Winding like a snake
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Having a long thin body that moves like a worm
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Having a long, winding shape like a snake
Having smooth, quiet movements or a watchful look like a long thin animal
Having the shape or movement of a snake
A surface or pattern that looks like snake scales
Having dry, bumpy skin like a lizard or snake
A long thin shape that bends and twists smoothly
Antonyms
How Snakelike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word snakelike comes from the two simple parts snake and -like, where snake is the long, slithering animal and -like means 'similar to'. So snakelike describes something long, slender, or moving and curving 'like' a snake.