Snake Vocabulary

Clayton looked over at the lizard’s cage and searched for the small reptile, but couldn’t find him.

She saw and heard the serpent coiled within the stalks at the same time, and she yelped as she jerked her hand back.

Thinking it might be a snake—for mambas like to hide in such trees—he leapt to his feet and gazed into the branches of the tree.

It moved like a young viper: purposeful, silent, and lethal.

It was a cobra, whose venom could kill a person in minutes.

That python was such a slow eater that he still hadn’t even finished by the time we left the reptile house.

The escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned Harry his longest-ever punishment.

The boa constrictor jabbed its tail at the sign again and Harry read on: This specimen was bred in the zoo.

So next morning we got up at dawn and paddled down the long lake watching for anacondas in the reed beds.
– The Guardian

She pointed to a spot just beyond Clay’s thigh where a large rattlesnake slithered toward him.

On Tuesday, Missy saw a garter snake slithering through the grass behind the blacktop.

Once while working in the fields, a black mamba snake slithered over his foot and prepared to strike.

“The earthquakes disturbed thousands of snakes that had been living on the mountain. They came slithering down into Saint-Pierre. Some of them were venomous six-foot-long pit vipers. Hundreds of people died from bites.”

The poisonous coral snake is bright yellow and red.

Carmen had read about a kind of snake that wrapped itself around its prey, choking it to death.

It is a characteristic of a predator to become invisible to its prey during the quiet and sometimes lengthy stalk that precedes an explosive attack.

“The Black Tortoise needs help,” hissed the snake, its voice like the wind through pine needles.

Meggie saw the viper's tiny poison fangs when it opened its mouth.

It was a cobra, whose venom could kill a person in minutes.

We nomads live in an area with dangerous animals and poisonous snakes.

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears.
– PBS

He turned into a snake and slithered over the edge.

A regularly recurrent event during the activity period of all snakes is the shedding, or molting, of the skin.
– Britannica

Whales aren’t the only animals that molt: Insects and reptiles shed their outer covering of skin in order to grow.
– National Geographic

Without legs, snakes must get creative to slither up trees, and new research suggests they use the scales covering their bodies to make such climbs.
– NBC News

The boa's hunting technique is generally to ambush prey, such as rats, birds, monkeys, or wild pigs.
– National Geographic Kids

Copperheads have a distinctive hourglass pattern on their scales. which, combined with their brown coloration, makes for extremely effective camouflage.
– The Sun

A snake began to draw itself, coiling upward.

The snake wasn’t lying in the sand, basking in the sun, like usual.

Instantly three mice leaped out and burrowed frantically under the hay again.