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sea serpent
noun
: a large marine animal resembling a serpent often reported to have been seen but never proved to exist
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Descriptions include 150-foot-long monsters that caused shipwrecks by wrapping their tentacles around ships, plenty of sea serpents with giant heads and long tails, and one story from 1903 of a group of men who saw a creature with a series of wings, a head like an elephant and horns.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
While in times past their size and often stupendous length likely gave rise to many a sailor’s tales of sea serpents, the innocent oarfish is hardly a diabolical or supernatural creature.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2024
In one scene, Godzilla heads to the Arctic Ocean and threatens a sea serpent with bioluminescent fins that emit a neon-pink glow (hell yeah!).
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
This kid gorilla leads Kong to a tribe of scraggly hostile apes who are living in a slave society presided over by the Skar King, an evil ape with blotchy red hair who’s as tall as Kong and wields a skeletal bone whip that looks like it was fashioned out of the spine of a sea serpent.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1774, in the meaning defined above
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“Sea serpent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20serpent. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
sea serpent
noun
: a large marine animal resembling a snake often reported to have been seen but never proved to be real
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