water snake
water snake noun: a snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
Noun
water snake (plural water snakes)
- A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
- A toy consisting of a liquid and (optionally) plastic trinkets encased in a long, soft, plastic torus. It is difficult to grip.
- It slips out of your hands easily, like a water-snake toy.2020 November 12, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 64
- Trying to pin him down on any one topic, much less a specific time and place, is like trying to hold onto a Water Snake toy—as soon as I think I have a firm grip, he comes gooshing out the other side.2010 November 1, Mike McMullen, I, Superhero!! :: We Wear Tights So You Won't Have To, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- water wiggler, water wigglie, water wienie
water snake meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada
water snake in Hindi
- type of snake
- दुंदुभ dundubh, डोंड़हा ḍõṛhā, धोड़ dhoṛ
water snake in Tamil
- நீரரா, தண்ணீர்ப்பாம்பு, சலவியாளம், நீர்க்கோலி, நீர்ப்புடையன்
water snake in Kannada
- ನೀರುಹಾವು, ನೀರೊಳ್ಳೆ, ಒಳ್ಳೆ, ಹೊಳ್ಳೆ, ಉಳ್ಳಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- Dhivehi
- ދަހަނާގަ dahanāga
Examples of water snake in a sentence
- Each time I tried to define it and pin it down to take a closer look, it seemed to slip away from me like one of those water snake toys that you can never hold on to.2015 September 15, M. R. O'Connor, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, St. Martin's...
- In this Order, "toy water snake” means a toy that is a flexible tube which contains water and which is made of any rubber or plastics.1968, Great Britain, Statutory Instruments:
Synonyms of water snake
- water wiggler
- water wigglie
- water wienie
Forms of water snake
| plural | water snakes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | watersnake |
Questions about water snake
- What does water snake mean?
- Water snake means a snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
- What is water snake in Hindi?
- Water snake in Hindi is दुंदुभ (dundubh), डोंड़हा (ḍõṛhā), धोड़ (dhoṛ). See Water snake meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use water snake in a sentence?
- Each time I tried to define it and pin it down to take a closer look, it seemed to slip away from me like one of those water snake toys that you can never hold on to.
- What part of speech is water snake?
- Water snake is a noun.
- What is the plural of water snake?
- The plural of water snake is water snakes.
Words near water snake in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: water snake (page history and authors); water snake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); water snake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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