Usually means: Horned viper, a venomous snake.
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  1. Cerastes, cerastes: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cerastes, cerastes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cerastes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. cerastes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. Cerastes (genus), Cerastes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cerastes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cerastes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. Cerastes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cerastes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Cerastes: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
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  18. cerastes: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  20. cerastes: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  (mythology) A very flexible horned serpent in Greek legend, said to have no spine and to hide its head in the sand awaiting prey.

Similar:
horned viper, sand viper, cerastes cornutus, horned asp, Cottus, Cerberus, centaur, tarasque, Kerberos, Campe, more...

Phrases:
Crotalus cerastes, Cerastes cerastes, Cerastes cerastes, cerastes cornutus, genus cerastes, more...

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Similar:
horned viper, sand viper, cerastes cornutus, horned asp, Cottus, Cerberus, centaur, tarasque, Kerberos, Campe, more...

Phrases:
Crotalus cerastes, Cerastes cerastes, Cerastes cerastes, cerastes cornutus, genus cerastes, more...



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