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What is the adjective for serpentine?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs serpent, serpentine, serpentinise, serpentinize and serpentize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

serpentine

Sinuous; curving in alternate directions.
Having the shape or form of a snake.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
Of, or having attributes associated with, the mythological serpent, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
Synonyms:

winding, twisting, meandering, sinuous, crooked, snaking, tortuous, snaky, windy, circuitous, coiling, curving, twisty, zigzag, anfractuous, bending, crazy, curled, curling, curved, curvy, meandrous, turning, twisted, zigzagging, devious, flexuous, mazy, serpentiform, snakelike, indirect, roundabout, slinky, twisting and turning, convoluted, rambling, wandering, labyrinthine, deviating, undulating, bent, spiraling, spiralling, coiled, bendy, irregular, looping, ambiguous, wavy, erratic … more

Examples:

“The stones formed a serpentine path so that evil spirits would get lost and not follow the path to its end.”

“With a rosy pencil, he sketched the hour when Barbara Lawson should be his own, and his serpentine plans would all be victoriously consummated.”

“The reader encounters in the book a serpentine web of the most fascinating scientific and philosophical perspectives.”

serpentigenous

(obsolete) Bred of a serpent
Characteristic of the movement of a snake or worm; serpentine

serpentinized

(geology) Partially or completely converted into the secondary mineral serpentine

serpentlike

Resembling a serpent or some aspect of one; snakelike.

serpentine

(botany) Of or characteristic of serpentine rocks or the plants that grow there.
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Examples:

“The stones formed a serpentine path so that evil spirits would get lost and not follow the path to its end.”

“With a rosy pencil, he sketched the hour when Barbara Lawson should be his own, and his serpentine plans would all be victoriously consummated.”

“The reader encounters in the book a serpentine web of the most fascinating scientific and philosophical perspectives.”

serpentiginous

Alternative spelling of serpentigenous

serpentinous

Resembling or relating to serpentine.

serpenticidal

serpent-killing

serpentiform

Having the form of a serpent.
Synonyms:

zigzag, twisting, winding, tortuous, meandering, curving, serpentine, sinuous, crooked, snaking, snaky, twisted, anfractuous, devious, zigzagging, curvy, twisty, meandrous, flexuous, askew, undulating, bent, indirect, irregular, deviating, rambling, squiggly, ogee, sinuate, tacking, wiggly, jagged, wavy, erratic, diagonal, oscillating, waggling, full of twists and turns, windy, bending, turning, curved, curling, circuitous, curled, crazy, mazy, twisting and turning, convoluted, coiling … more

serpented

simple past tense and past participle of serpent

serpenting

present participle of serpent

serpentined

simple past tense and past participle of serpentine
Synonyms:

coiled, twisted, curled, winded, wound, spiraled, spiralled, turned, looped, curved, bent, bended, twirled, twined, snaked, corkscrewed, meandered, entwined, wreathed, writhed, wrothe, writhen, rotated, folded, convoluted, scrolled, convolved, sinuated, spired, intertwined, lapped, intervolved, serpentized, wrapped around, curled around … more

serpentining

present participle of serpentine
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serpentinised

simple past tense and past participle of serpentinise

serpentinising

present participle of serpentinise

serpentinizing

present participle of serpentinize

serpentized

simple past tense and past participle of serpentize
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serpentizing

present participle of serpentize
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