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vipers

noun

plural of viper

as in serpents

a limbless reptile with a long body a viper sliding silently through the field

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Recent Examples of vipers Goode needed no persuading about the beauty of animals like New Caledonian geckos, African bush vipers, Caribbean rock iguanas, and similar Cyclura. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026 For example, vipers use their fangs to inject venom into their target. — Philip Anderson, The Conversation, 8 July 2026 The poison of vipers is on their lips—and yet stop. — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026 Dangerous reptiles like cobras, mambas, vipers, anacondas and rattlesnakes are all banned from private ownership. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026 The animal enthusiast has since fished vipers from beneath houses, underneath baby cribs, the inside of dry wall, the back of a refrigerator, a fire department, a Safeway and scores of other spots. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026 Other shipments sent by Lin included alligator lizards, venomous green tree vipers and palm pit vipers, all protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025 Now, young people are buying venomous pet vipers. — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025 The vipers closed their jaws to inject the venom only when their fangs were comfortably in place. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025

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In Roman art, invidia is sometimes depicted as a gaunt Medusa-like figure with serpents for hair.

— Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
Those serpents include six rattlesnake species and non-rattlers, such as the Copperhead, Water Moccasin (or Cottonmouth) and Eastern Coral snakes.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026

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Rather than killing the snakes found on its property, Cat Haven relocates them to areas farther from the cats, according to Anderson.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Not a forest by any means, but a small woods where there are squirrels and chipmunks, probably snakes and skunks, rabbits and, now and then, passing through on some mysterious transient route, a deer or a family of deer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026

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