snakekindとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

snakekind (uncountable)

1. (rare) Snakes collectively.
   • 1951, Loutrel W. Briggs, Charleston Gardens, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, page 12:

     […] he handled a Rattlesnake with his naked hands, without receiving any harm from it, though thought to be most venomous of the Snakekind.

   • 1995, Rajmohan Gandhi, “The Last Lap” (chapter 11), in The Good Boatman: A Portrait of Ghandi, New Delhi: Penguin Books, published 1997, page 403:

     Lastly, let me, for the sake of snakekind correct a common error [and point out] that eighty snakes out of every hundred are perfectly harmless and render useful service in nature (Oct.3; 89:276).

   • 2015 July 16, Steve Galea, “Learning from snakes”, in Minden Times, page 6:

     The point is that poor snake was inadvertently providing that same public service to other snakes so that snakekind and porcupinekind, will be all the better for it.