snake; serpent; large snake
venomous snake; poisonous snake
albino Japanese rat snake
sea snake; worm eel (Ophichthidae spp.); snake eel
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one; it takes a thief to catch a thief
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the bush
state of uncertainty; limbo; leaving unfinished with the intention of inflicting suffering; dragging out tortuously; (lit.) half-killing a snake
Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer
Serpens (constellation); the Snake
to only make work for oneself; to stir up a hornet's nest; to put one's foot in one's mouth
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
viper (esp. a pitless viper)
Hydra (constellation); the Sea Serpent
torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes
blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake; fools rush in
lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)
Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese striped snake
black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake
Hydrus (constellation); the Water Snake
fools rush in where angels fear to tread; (lit.) the blind don't fear snakes
spectacled cobra; Indian cobra; Asian cobra (Naja naja)
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; (lit.) to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)
caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platura); yellowbelly sea snake; pelagic sea snake
reticulated python (Python reticulatus)
dobsonfly (esp. species Protohermes grandis)
Erabu black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata)
secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius); secretary bird
milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
European adder (Vipera berus)
scaly worm shell (Serpulorbis imbricatus)
slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis melanocephalus)
Japanese odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis); Peters' odd-scaled snake; grey burrowing snake
sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
Enneapterygius etheostomus (species of threefin blenny)
cerastes; horned viper; horned adder
krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)
king snake (any snake of genus Lampropeltis)
Russell's viper (Daboia russelii)
snake gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina)