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  • adjective Without snakes.

Etymologies

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snake +‎ -less

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Examples

  • As snakes are still fascinating to me, especially coming from a snakeless country, I was determined to get another picture of one.

    Stalking a Snake Stalking Me RICHARD 2007

  • Favorite sentence: "We were snakeless in Northern Kentucky."

    this day in history (# 3 updated) Gwenda 2004

  • Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea; 10

    To Virgil 1909

  • Only in a comparatively snakeless country could such fancies be born and such metaphors used -- snakeless and highly civilized, where the blades of Sheffield are cheap and abundant.

    Far Away and Long Ago 1881

  • No one imagines that London in 1917 is a snakeless, Eden or expects that German agents today are elderly professors who say, 'How vos you?' and 'Ja, ja!'"

    Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005

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