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Definition: Sea Serpent |
Sea SerpentNoun1. Huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Sea Serpent Pontoppidan, in his Natural History of Norway, speaks of sea serpents 600 feet long. The great sea serpent was said to have been seen off the coast of Norway in 1819, 1822, 1837. Hans Egede affirms that it was seen on the coast of Greenland in 1734. In 1815, 1817, 1819, 1833, and in 1869, it made its appearance near Boston. In 1841 it was "seen" by the crew of Her Majesty's frigate Daedalus, in the South Atlantic Ocean. In 1875 it was seen by the crew of the barque Pauline. Girth, nine feet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Although the name sea serpent has come to mean almost invariably a mythical sea monster, there are true sea snakes of several different species belonging to a group related to cobrass. They are only moderately large. The body is compressed as an adaptation for swimming and the snakes are so thoroughly aquatic that they are either clumsy or helpless when brought ashore.Sea snakes are poisonous. They have short grooved fangs near the front of the upper jaw, and the poison acts on the nervous system like that of the related cobras.
Sea snakes are confined to the tropical oceans, chiefly the Indian ocean and the western Pacific ocean. A single species, Pelamydrus platurus, extends to the eastern Pacific.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope). |
Unconformity | Phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"; teratology. |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sea serpent | 83 |
picture sea serpent | 10 |
sea serpent tattoo | 6 |
lake monster sea serpent | 5 |
photo sea serpent | 3 |
cecil sea serpent | 3 |
pic sea serpent | 3 |
boat sea serpent | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "sea serpent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ثعبان البحر. (various references) | |
French | serpent de mer (serpent eel). (various references) | |
German | seeschlange. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 海蛇 (sea snake). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うみへび (sea snake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | easay erpentsay.(various references) | |
Spanish | serpiente de mar (sea snake). (various references) | |
Turkish | denizyılanı. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rắn biển. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pretenses. | |
-2 letters: assenter, earnests, esterase, pasterns, pensters, pertness, presents, preteens, pretense, raptness, sarsenet, serenate, serenest, serpents, steepens, steepers, terpenes, tesserae, trapeses. | |
-3 letters: aptness, arpents, asperse, earnest, eastern, easters, entases, entraps, entrees, nearest, nesters, parents, pareses, pastern, pasters, patness, peeress, penates, pensees, penster, pesetas, pesters, present, presets, preteen, renests, repasts, repeats, repents, reseats, resents. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: parentheses. | |
+2 letters: separateness. | |
+3 letters: asthenosphere, desperateness, operativeness, parenthesizes, passementerie, permanentness, predesignates, predestinates, prematureness, privatenesses, temperateness. | |
+4 letters: apparentnesses, asthenospheres, imperativeness, magnetospheres, malapertnesses, passementeries, pectinesterase, perseverations, preadolescents, preanesthetics, separatenesses, treponematoses, weatherpersons. | |
+5 letters: cooperativeness, desperatenesses, disparatenesses, inoperativeness, intemperateness, openheartedness, operativenesses, overcompensates, painterlinesses, parthenogeneses, parthenogenesis, pectinesterases, permanentnesses, precipitateness, prematurenesses, presentableness, proximatenesses, representations, representatives, respectableness, spermatogeneses, spermatogenesis, superelevations, superlativeness, temperatenesses, temporarinesses. | |
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