Associations to the word «Serpentes»

Wiktionary

SERPENTES, proper noun. A taxonomic suborder within the order Squamata   — the snakes.

Dictionary definition

SERPENTES, noun. Snakes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats