SERPENTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serpentine mean? 

• SERPENTINE (adjective)
  The adjective SERPENTINE has 1 sense:

1. resembling a serpent in form

  Familiarity information: SERPENTINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERPENTINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a serpent in form

Synonyms:

serpentine; snakelike; snaky

Context example:

snaky ridges in the sand

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

 Context examples 

The mix of minerals identified from the spectrometer data, including serpentine, talc and carbonate, and the shape and texture of the thick bedrock layers, led to identifying possible seafloor hydrothermal deposits.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

A morphologic finding referring to the presence of multiple foci of serpentine necrosis and glial cell perivascular pseudopalisading in a glioma.

(Multiple Serpentine Pseudopalisading Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

A naturally occurring, fibrous and silky, serpentine asbestos mineral with a color ranging from gray-white to yellow-green and is the most abundant and widely-used form of asbestos.

(Chrysotile Asbestos, NCI Thesaurus)

Include movements that are choreic (rapid, objectively purposeless, irregular, spontaneous) or athetoid (slow, irregular, complex, serpentine).

(AIMS - Upper Extremities, NCI Thesaurus)

We have taken such a very serpentine course, and the wood itself must be half a mile long in a straight line, for we have never seen the end of it yet since we left the first great path.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us:—"Look! Isten szek!"—"God's seat!"—and he crossed himself reverently.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)