Learn English – Adjective that means “snake-like”

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If bovine means related to the cow or ox, what is the word that means related to the snake?

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Serpentine is the snake equivalent of bovine.

of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement)

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serpentine

Serpent - synonym of snake

Wikipedia :

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes
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All modern snakes are grouped within the suborder Serpentes in Linnean taxonomy,

Whereas Ophidia is a supergroup of lizards and snakes.

Ophidia is a group of squamate reptiles including modern snakes and all snake-like "lizards" closer to snakes than to other living groups of lizards.

I would however likely use reptilian or snake-like for descriptions of behaviour, viz her bovine eyes looked calmly at me

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