snake; serpent; large snake
snakelike; snaky; serpentine
poisonous snake; poisonous serpent
albino Japanese rat snake
sea snake; worm eel (Ophichthidae spp.); snake eel
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the brush
state of uncertainty; limbo; leaving unfinished with the intention of inflicting suffering; dragging out tortuously; (lit.) half-killing a snake
Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer
Serpens (constellation); the Snake
to only make work for oneself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
Hydra (constellation); the Sea Serpent
torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes
viper (esp. a pitless viper)
lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)
blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake; fools rush in
Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese striped snake
black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake
Hydrus (constellation); the Water Snake
fools rush in where angels fear to tread; (lit.) the blind don't fear snakes
spectacled cobra; Indian cobra; Asian cobra (Naja naja)
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; (lit.) to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)
caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platura); yellowbelly sea snake; pelagic sea snake
reticulated python (Python reticulatus)
dobsonfly (esp. species Protohermes grandis)
secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius); secretary bird
scaly worm shell (Serpulorbis imbricatus)
Erabu black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata)
Japanese odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis); Peters' odd-scaled snake; grey burrowing snake
sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
Enneapterygius etheostomus (species of threefin blenny)
cerastes; horned viper; horned adder
krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)
king snake (any snake of genus Lampropeltis)
milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
European adder (Vipera berus)
Russell's viper (Daboia russelii)
snake gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina)