snakelikeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

snakelike (comparative more snakelike, superlative most snakelike)

1. Resembling a snake; long, thin and flexible, or waving about in a snake-like manner; snaky.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I could, however, clearly distinguish that the swathed mummy-like form before me was that of a tall and lovely woman, instinct with beauty in every part, and also with a certain snake-like grace which I had never seen anything to equal before.

2. (figurative) Characteristic of or resembling a snake.

   a snakelike forked tongue

   • 2020 November 10, Veronique Greenwood, “How Some Skinks Lost Their Legs and Then Evolved New Ones”, in The New York Times‎:

     Skinks are lizards, but some species have lost their limbs over eons of evolution, giving them a snakelike look.

派生語

参考

• anguine
• anguinous
• colubrine
• elapine
• ophidian
• serpentine
• serpentiginous