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sand asp

sand asp noun: the horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).

Noun

sand asp (plural sand asps)

  1. The horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).
    • a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love’s Apparition and Evanishment”, in The Poetical Words of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, page 132
    • the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,1876, Walter Thornbury, “The Legend of St. Vitus”, in Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, London: Chatto and Windus, page 44

Forms of sand asp

pluralsand asps

Questions about sand asp

What does sand asp mean?
Sand asp means the horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).
What part of speech is sand asp?
Sand asp is a noun.
What is the plural of sand asp?
The plural of sand asp is sand asps.

Words near sand asp in the dictionary

  1. sancyites
  2. sand
  3. sand and spinach
  4. sand apricot-vine
  5. sand art
  6. sand asp
  7. sand badger
  8. sand badgers
  9. sand band
  10. sand bands
  11. sand bar

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