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(classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body
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amphisbaena
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n. (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body type genus of the Amphisbaenidae [syn: genus Amphisbaena , Amphisbaenia , genus Amphisbaenia ] [also: amphisbaenae (pl)]
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The amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ) is a mythological , ant -eating serpent with a head at each end. The creature is alternately called the amphisbaina , amphisbene , amphisboena , amphisbona , amphista , amfivena , amphivena , or anphivena (the last ...
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n. (alternative form of amphisbaena English)
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Amphisbaena \Am`phis*b[ae]"na\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; ? on both ends + ? to go.] A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. --Milton. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike ...
Usage examples of amphisbaena.
Ansalem was sitting on the stone couch again, apparently oblivious of the double-headed serpent, the amphisbaena, which shimmered in and out of view through him.
He found it hard to concentrate with the amphisbaena shifting in and out of the travertine couch.
I took Klestis out of time, and my acolytes knotted the amphisbaena to hold me in my chamber forever.
An amphisbaena, or snake with a head at either end, was particularly distinct.
You are worse than the asp that poisoned Cleopatra, worse than the horned viper whose deceits delight the birds then sacrificed to its hunger, worse than the amphisbaena that, on anyone it grasps, scatters such venom that in an instant he dies, worse than the dread leps that, armed with four venomous teeth, corrupts the flesh it bites, worse than the jacule that darts from trees and stran.
You are worse than the asp that poisoned Cleopatra, worse than the horned viper whose deceits delight the birds then sacrificed to its hunger, worse than the amphisbaena that, on anyone it grasps, scatters such venom that in an instant he dies, worse than the dread leps that, armed with four venomous teeth, corrupts the flesh it bites, worse than the jacule that darts from trees and strangles its victim, worse than the colubra that vomits its poison into fountains, worse than the basilisk that kills with his gaze!