Usually means: Snakes, often symbolic, mythologically significant creatures.
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  1. serpents: Merriam-Webster
  2. serpents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. serpents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Serpent's, Serpents, serpent's, serpents, serpents: Wordnik
  5. serpents: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. serpents: Wiktionary
  7. serpents: Dictionary.com
  8. serpents: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Serpents: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Serpents: Encyclopedia

(Note: See serpent as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Serpent)

noun:  (now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
noun:  (figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
noun:  (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
noun:  A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To wind or meander
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To encircle.
noun:  the constellation Serpens
noun:  (figuratively) Satan
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