sea serpent

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   huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon

   Broaderlegendary creature

Questions about sea serpent

What does sea serpent mean?

sea serpent means "huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon".

Is sea serpent a common word?

sea serpent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.