: any of numerous venomous aquatic chiefly viviparous elapid snakes of warm seas
Examples of sea snake in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThere was yet more to see—wild horses and noodle-nosed saiga antelope, coves of turquoise water filled with shipwrecks and sea snakes, and camel caravans on the Turkman border.—J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2024 Jenny — as the creature affectionately became known — was thought to look like a giant sea snake and was described as anywhere from 25 to 80 feet long.—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024 These include species of shovel-nosed snakes, which evolved to dig up prey, and species of sea snakes, which swim with a paddlelike tail and snack on prey such as reef fish.—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024 The team found that the annulated sea snake now has four intact copies of the opsin gene SWS1.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for sea snake
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