viper

«viper» in Mova's school dictionary: a kind of venomous snake with long fangs that fold back… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a viper, vipers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A viper is a kind of venomous snake with long fangs that fold back, such as the adder. tree →

2) (old-fashioned) A viper is a wicked, treacherous person who betrays others. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, vipers include adders, rattlesnakes and puff adders; the adder is Britain's only venomous snake and is shy and protected. In safety, if bitten, stay calm, keep still and get medical help at once. In the Bible and old stories, a brood of vipers or a viper in the nest means a dangerous, deceitful person.

examples

• The adder is a kind of viper. tree →
• Vipers have long fangs that fold back. tree →
• Rattlesnakes are vipers from America. tree →
• If a viper bites you, get help straight away. tree →
• In the story, the king's adviser was a viper. tree →
• A viper basked on the warm rocks. tree →
• While thus looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet. tree →

note

Countable. Vipers are venomous (they inject venom), not poisonous to eat. Do not confuse with a wiper (windscreen wiper). The cruel-person meaning is old-fashioned.

In the corpora

• Pit vipers such as rattlesnakes have heat-sensing pits on their faces that find warm-blooded prey in total darkness.
• Cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes are the famous ones.
• They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; vipers' venom is under their lips.
• He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «viper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.