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SEPS or seps can mean:

  • Seps (legendary creature), a snake from medieval bestiaries, with extremely corrosive venom that liquified their prey
  • Tetradactylus, a genus of lizard
Seps (legendary creature)

Seps is a snake from Medieval bestiaries. They had extremely corrosive venom that liquified their prey. Shelley in Prometheus Unbound writes:

...all my being, Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw Into a dew with poison, is dissolved...

Usage examples of "seps".

They wanted to equip their conveyances with those horrendous weapons of theirs before they were done testing so they could use them on the seps.