snakeling

plural snakelings

1. diminutiveDiminutive of snake.

   1 more example

   But just as Teddy was stooping, something flinched a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: "Be careful. I am death!" It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra's. But he is so small that nobody thinks of him, and so he does the more harm to people.

   1894, Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

   Synonyms: snakelet

   1. a snake hatchling

      Synonyms: snakelet

   2. a young snake

      Synonyms: snakelet

   3. a small snake

      Synonyms: snakelet