snake
/sneɪk/
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Translation
A long thin animal with no legs that moves along the ground.
Word origin
From Old English snaca, the old Germanic word for the crawling animal.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- snaca
Grammar
Gender
Pluralsnakes
Examples
through grass.
"Snake" is one long thin animal with no legs.
dangerous.
"Snakes" is the plural, meaning more than one snake.
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Here "snake" is the animal we are describing.
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