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sea serpent

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sea serpent
n.
A large snakelike marine animal often reported by mariners since antiquity but never positively identified.

sea serpent
n
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) a huge legendary creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon
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Noun1.sea serpent - huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragonsea serpent - huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon
legendary creature - a monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual


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Ruffen: The Sea Serpent Who Couldn't Swim Tor Age Bringsvaerd, author Thore Hansen, illustrator MacKenzie Smiles PMB 248, 455 Sam Ridley Parkway West, Smyrna, TN 37167 9780979034794, $16.
A sea serpent is a marine creature of snakelike form and monstrous size B.
Take, for example, this story of a sea serpent which attacked a ship in the Menai Strait: ``Once in October, in the year 1805, as a small vessel of the Traeth was upon the Menai, sailing very slowly, the weather being very calm, the people on board saw a strange creature like an immense worm swimming after them.
 
 
 
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