蛇

black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake

Word usually written using kana alone; Common noun

blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

Abbreviation; Expressions

fools rush in

rattlesnake

Astronomy

Hydrus (constellation); the Water Snake

Sensitive; Proverb

fools rush in where angels fear to tread; the blind don't fear snakes

wicked and perverse; weird and incoherent

dragon dance (e.g. in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival)

long and serpentine (line, queue, etc.)

yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platura); yellowbelly sea snake; pelagic sea snake

coral snake

Asian keelback (Amphiesma vibakari)

making an unnecessary addition (to); gilding the lily

Product name

Salamander (video game)

scaly worm shell (Serpulorbis imbricatus)

spectacled cobra; Indian cobra; Asian cobra (Naja naja)

krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)

Ophiopogon planiscapus (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)

king snake (any snake of genus Lampropeltis)

milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)

Japanese odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis); Peters' odd-scaled snake; grey burrowing snake

Kuroshio Current; Kuroshio Current Meander

slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis melanocephalus)

asp viper (Vipera aspis)

Erabu black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata)