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  • noun Plural form of snakelet.

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Examples

  • "So that you would look just like you, snakelets and all, but wouldn't stone anyone."

    Harpy Thyme Anthony, Piers, 1934- 1994

  • Sulla had therefore got himself up as Medusa the Gorgon, complete with a wig of genuine living snakelets that had the whole room screaming in terror every time he lowered his head and threatened to charge, and a flowing mass of draperies in Coan floss silk that showed the guests his biggest snake all too clearly.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • The anti-swallowists declare that the powerful digestive juices of the stomach of a snake would quickly kill any snakelets coming in contact with it; and I believe that this is true.

    The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

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