Word Meanings - VIPERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

VIPEROIDEA; VIPEROIDES
A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.
SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
VIPER
Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidæ. There came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. Acts xxviii. 3. Note: Among the best-known species
VIPERISH
Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
VIPERINA
See VIPEROIDEA
VIPERINE
Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. Viperine snake. Any venomous snake of the family Viperidæ. A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles
VIPEROUS
Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue. "This viperous slander." Shak. -- Vi"per*ous*ly, adv.
VIPEROID
Like or pertaining to the vipers.
WATER VIPER
See MOCCASIN