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sea serpent en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A type of sea monster resembling a snake or dragon.
   • This time they got into print, all right. But the much-handled stories, written up with that blend of cautiously defensive frivolity which the press habitually employed to cover themselves in matters regarding sea-serpents, elementals, thought transference, and other irregular phenomena, prevented anyone from realizing that these accomplished plants at all resembled the quiet, respectable weed beside our rubbish heap. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 39:
   • Here let me say - and I wish it to be distinctly understood - that I do not deny the possibility of the existence of a great sea serpent, or other great creatures at present unknown to science[.] 1883, Henry Lee, Sea Monsters Unmasked, London: Richard Clowes and Sons, page 75:

Forms

Synonyms

sea adder

Translations (22)

cmn 大海蛇 (sea monster) · he נָחָשׁ בָּרִיחַ (sea monster) · pt serpente marinha (sea monster) · fa اژدهای دریایی (sea monster) · gl serpe mariña (sea monster) · hu tengeri kígyó (sea monster) · it serpente marino (sea monster) · ga nathair mhara (sea monster) · fa مار دریایی (sea monster) · it pistrice (sea monster) · de Seeschlange (sea monster) · mr समुद्री नाग (sea monster) · nn sjøorm (sea monster) · sv sjöorm (sea monster) · ga ollphéist mhara (sea monster) · ga péist chon (sea monster) · ga péist mhara (sea monster) · sv havsmonster (sea monster) · fr serpent de mer (sea monster) · ru морско́й змей (sea monster) · nb sjøorm (sea monster) · es serpiente marina (sea monster)