serpentine

1. Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.

2. (historical)An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.

3. A kind of firework.

4. A coiled distillation tube.

   змееви́кzmejevík

5. Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea

6. In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.

7. Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.

8. An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.

   Schlangenstein, Serpentin

   змееви́кzmejevík, серпенти́нserpentín

   змійови́кzmijovýk, серпенти́нserpentýn

1. The rotting shanty town was not too distant from the grandiose temples of serpentine.

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2. Serpentine is a greenish rock, a silicate of magnesia, in which there is sometimes from 30 to 40 per cent of magnesia.

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