The corpus record — Latin

viperinus

viperinus · adj

Of a viper

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Where it lives

Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

vīpĕrīnus — Lewis & Short

vīpĕrīnus, a, um, adj.id..

I Of a viper, serpent, or snake.

A Adj.: caro, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 27: sanguis, Hor. C. 1, 8, 9; cf. cruor, id. Epod. 3, 6: sanies, Plin. 11, 53, 115, § 279: morsus, Att. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 94; id. Tusc. 2, 7, 19: nodo coërces viperino Bistonidum, Hor. C. 2, 19, 19.—

B Subst.: vīpĕrīna, ae, f. (herba), a plant, called also serpentaria, dragonwort, App. Herb. 5. —

II Serpent - formed, serpent-like: cauda (chamaeleonis) implicans se viperinis orbibus, Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 121.

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