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viperine

[vahy-per-in, -puh-rahyn]

vi·per·ine

[vahy-per-in, -puh-rahyn]
adjective
of, pertaining to, or resembling a viper; venomous: a gossip with a viperine tongue.

Origin:
1540–50; < Latin vīperīnus. See viper, -ine1

pseu·do·vi·per·ine, adjective
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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