Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to, of the nature of, or resembling serpentine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or like, serpentine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or relating to
serpentine .
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Examples
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Under the microscope, the rock consists of biotite, hornblende, serpentinous pseudo-morphs after olivine and possibly after enstatite and magnetite, and may be described as a mica-hornblende-picrite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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A solitary figure trudged along the narrow road that wound its serpentinous way through the dismal, forbidding depths of the forest:
Green Fancy George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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The original is composed of finely veined azurite or carbonate of copper, which, although specked with harder serpentinous nodules, is almost entirely blue.
Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878
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