? Obs.

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  1.  = WATER-SNAKE. Also = SEA-SERPENT.

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1530.  Palsgr., 287/1. Water serpent, couleuure deaue.

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1538.  Elyot, Dict., Echidna, a water serpent.

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1756–7.  trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), I. 40. Professor Frank, of Frankenau, speaks of a still larger species of water-serpents.

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1869.  Ruskin, Q. of Air, i. § 2. Hercules killed a water-serpent.

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  2.  The constellation Hydra.

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1599.  T. Hill, Sch. Skill, 23. The image named the Water Serpent, hath 25. stars.

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1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., VI. iii. 128. The Water-Serpent hath 15 Stars.

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  † 3.  A plant of the genus Moringa. Obs.

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[1649–51.  Hernandez, Nova Plant., etc. Mex., IV. xxv. 119. De Coatli, seu Aquco serpente (description follows)].

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1659.  Lovell, Herball, 541. Water serpent, Coatlis, Aqueus serpens.

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