Usually means: Curving, winding like a snake.
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  1. serpentine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. serpentine: Merriam-Webster
  3. serpentine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. serpentine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. serpentine: Collins English Dictionary
  6. serpentine: Vocabulary.com
  7. Serpentine, serpentine: Wordnik
  8. serpentine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Serpentine, serpentine: Wiktionary
  10. serpentine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. serpentine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. serpentine (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Serpentine (album), Serpentine (alkaloid), Serpentine (cannon), Serpentine (disambiguation), Serpentine (lake), Serpentine (song), Serpentine (video game), Serpentine, The Serpentine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Serpentine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. serpentine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. serpentine: Rhymezone
  17. Serpentine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. serpentine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. serpentine: FreeDictionary.org
  20. serpentine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. serpentine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. serpentine: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. serpentine: Dictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. serpentine: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. serpentine: Legal dictionary

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  1. serpentine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. serpentine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. serpentine: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Serpentine: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  3. SERPENTINE: The Mineral Gallery
  4. serpentine: Dictionary of Geology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Serpentine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Serpentine: Ceramic Glossary Database
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See serpentinely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
adjective:  Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
adjective:  Having the form or shape of a snake.
adjective:  Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
adjective:  Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
noun:  Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
noun:  (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
noun:  A kind of firework.
noun:  A coiled distillation tube.
noun:  (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
noun:  (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
noun:  (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
noun:  (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
verb:  To serpentize; to turn or bend; to meander.
noun:  A lake in Hyde Park, London.
noun:  A river in Alaska.
noun:  A river in Australia.
noun:  A river in Canada.
noun:  A river in New Zealand.
noun:  A town in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Western Australia.

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