sea serpent

Noun

sea serpent (plural sea serpents)

1. A type of sea monster resembling a snake or dragon.
   • Here let me say - and I wish it to be distinctly understood - that I do not deny the possibility of the existence of a great sea serpent, or other great creatures at present unknown to science[.]1883, Henry Lee, Sea Monsters Unmasked, London: Richard Clowes and Sons, page 75
   • This time they got into print, all right. But the much-handled stories, written up with that blend of cautiously defensive frivolity which the press habitually employed to cover themselves in matters regarding sea-serpents, elementals, thought transference, and other irregular phenomena, prevented...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 39

   Synonyms:

   sea adder