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# sidewinder

«sidewinder» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small rattlesnake from the deserts of the south-western…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sidewinder, sidewinders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small rattlesnake from the deserts of the south-western USA and Mexico that moves sideways by throwing its body in loops across the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#m1)

2) Any snake that moves this way (some vipers in African deserts do too). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about deserts and animal movement, sidewinding lets a snake move on loose, hot sand with only small parts of its body touching the ground, leaving J-shaped tracks. The sidewinder has little horns above its eyes. Phrases: «sidewinder rattlesnake», «sidewinding».

### examples

- The sidewinder moved sideways across the hot sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#x1)
- Sidewinders leave J-shaped tracks in the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#x2)
- Only a little of the sidewinder's body touches the sand at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#x3)
- The sidewinder is a small rattlesnake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#x4)
- Sidewinders hunt lizards and mice at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#x5)
- Never go near a rattlesnake, even a small one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/#x6)

### note

Countable. Related: «sidewind» (verb, rare), «sidewinding». Safety: the sidewinder is venomous — keep away and tell an adult. Also the name of a missile, but children rarely need that.

### In the corpora

- [The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sidewinder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sidewinder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.