snakelike
adjEtymology From snake + -like.
1
Resembling a snake; long, thin and flexible, or waving about in a snake-like manner; snaky.
- I could, however, clearly distinguish that the swathed mummy-like form before me was that of a tall and lovely woman, instinct with beauty in every part, and also with a certain snake-like grace which I had never seen anything to equal before.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
2
Figuratively Characteristic of or resembling a snake.
- a snakelike forked tongue
- Skinks are lizards, but some species have lost their limbs over eons of evolution, giving them a snakelike look.2020 October 11, Veronique Greenwood, “How Some Skinks Lost Their Legs and Then Evolved New Ones”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- snakelikeness, unsnakelike