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毒蛇，蝮蛇 poisonous snake;
海蛇 sea snake;
水蛇 water snake;
四腳蛇 lizard;
響尾蛇 rattlesnake;
眼鏡蛇 or 毒帽蛇 cobra;
蛇頭鼠尾 sneaky, crafty look;
蛇蠍 snakes and scorpions;
蛇豕 or 封豕長蛇 (AC) wild boars and snakes－fiends of society;
虎頭蛇尾 things which start off big and then end up in nothing;
蛇吞象 (fig.) inordinately greedy, a snake trying to swallow an elephant;
蛇無頭不行 a snake cannot crawl when head is injured－importance of leader;
打草驚蛇 put enemy on guard by premature action;
畫蛇添足 doing what is superfluous (“adding feet to a picture of a snake”).
委蛇 90.93.
2.蛇符 [she2fu2], n., the slough of a snake.
3.蛇含 [she2han2], n., (bot.) Potentilla kleiniana (also wr. 蛇銜).
4.蛇舅母 [she2jiu4mu3], n., (zoo.) a long-tailed lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides (“snake’s maternal uncle's wife”).
5.蛇麻 [she2ma2], n., (bot.) hops, Humulus lupulus.
6.蛇矛 [she2mao2], n., as in 丈八蛇矛 an ancient long spear.
7.蛇苺 [she2mei2], n., (bot.) the Indian strawberry, Duchesnea indica.
8.蛇皮癬 [she2pi2xUan3], n., (med.) a skin disease with dry scales.
9.蛇婆 [she2po2], n., a sea snake.
10.蛇葡萄 [she2pu2tao2], n., (bot.) Ampelopsis heterophylla or northern fox grape.
11.蛇行 [she2xing2], v.i., to crawl forward: 蛇行而進.
12.蛇頭瘡 [she2tou2chuang1], n., (med.) a whitlow.
13.蛇蛻 [she2tui4], n., slough of a snake, used as medicine.
14.蛇足 [she2zu2], n., (from 畫蛇添足）s.t. superfluous.
15.蛇紋石 [she2wen2shi2], n., (min.) serpentine.