| adder2 |
a small, venomous snake found in Europe and Asia. |
| anaconda |
a very large snake found in South America. Anacondas are not venomous but kill other animals by squeezing them until they cannot breathe. Anacondas can grow to over twenty feet long. |
| boa constrictor |
a large snake that lives in the tropical areas of Central and South America. Boa constrictors are pale brown with darker marks and are not venomous. They kill their prey by winding around it and squeezing it until it cannot breathe. |
| cicada |
Cicadas are large insects with wings. Cicadas spend many years living in the ground when they are very young. Finally they come out of the ground in large groups and become adults. Male cicadas make a kind of humming sound that gets very loud and then fades away. The sound is a little like the rattle of a snake. |
| cobra |
a venomous snake found in Asia and Africa. When excited, cobras are known to rear up and spread the skin of their necks into a shape like a hood. |
| constrictor |
a snake that kills its prey by winding around it and squeezing it until it can not breathe. Pythons, boa constrictors, and anacondas are constrictors. |
| copperhead |
a venomous snake that has a copper-colored body with darker bands. Copperheads are found in the southeastern United States. |
| coral snake |
a small, venomous snake that has red, yellow, and black bands around its body. It is found in the southwestern part of the United States and in Central and South America. |
| cottonmouth |
a venomous North American snake that lives in swamps; water moccasin. |
| eel |
a long fish that looks like a snake. Eels live in fresh water or salt water. |
| garter snake |
a small snake with stripes that does not harm people. It is common in North America. |
| hiss |
If something hisses, it makes a sound that is like an "s" that is held for a long time. A snake is animal that sometimes hisses. |
| hood |
something that resembles such a covering, such as the parts of some flowers or the skin around the neck of a cobra snake. [1/3 definitions] |
| long1 |
If a TV show is one hour long, then it takes one hour to watch it. It lasts one hour from beginning to end. If a snake is three feet long, it measures three feet from the tip of its head to the end of its tail. [1/6 definitions] |
| neither |
Let's say someone asks you if you want to drink juice or milk, and you say "Neither." This means that you do not want to drink juice or milk. It means you want something else to drink or nothing. Let's say that neither you nor your brother wants to have a snake for a pet. This means that not you or your brother wants a snake. [1/3 definitions] |
| python |
a snake that is not venomous and lives in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Pythons kill by winding around their prey and squeezing it until it cannot breathe. |
| racer |
a kind of slender North American snake. [1/3 definitions] |
| rattlesnake |
a venomous snake found in North, Central, and South America. A rattlesnake has a structure at the end of its tail that makes a rattling sound when the snake shakes it. |
| rhyme |
When words rhyme, they end in the same group of sounds, like "bake" and "snake." [1/6 definitions] |
| serpent |
a snake. |
| snake |
a long, narrow reptile that has scales but no legs. [3 definitions] |