Crossword-Solution: CERASTES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cerastes | n. | A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CERASTES | anagram | CATERESS, SEACREST |
We have 9 clues for the answer “CERASTES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AFRICAN horned viper | 1 answer |
| NORTH African horned viper | 1 answer |
| Horned viper. | 3 answers |
| NORTH African reptile | 4 answers |
| NORTH African snake | 4 answers |
| NORTH African viper | 4 answers |
| Viper | 11 answers |
| African Snake | 17 answers |
| SNAKE, type of | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CERASTES (5)
Then they immediately swoop down to pick them and the Cerastes suddenly twines round them and encircles and devours them.
One horn of the Cerastes, for instance, contains a deadly poison: the other, pounded and drawn across the eye, makes man a seer and reveals to him the treasures of the earth.
Herodote writeth, that there be founde Asses with hornes, Hienas Porpentines, wilde Rambes, a beast engendered of the Hiene and the Woulfe named Thoas, Pantheres, Storckes, Oistruthes, and many kindes of serpentes, as Cerastes, and Aspides, against whom nature hath matched the Ichneumon (a verie little beast) as a mortall enemie.
Where in an instant I beheld uprisen At once three hellish furies stain'd with blood: In limb and motion feminine they seem'd; Around them greenest hydras twisting roll'd Their volumes; adders and cerastes crept Instead of hair, and their fierce temples bound.
Where in an instant I beheld uprisen At once three hellish furies stain’d with blood: In limb and motion feminine they seem’d; Around them greenest hydras twisting roll’d Their volumes; adders and cerastes crept Instead of hair, and their fierce temples bound.