Vocabulary : Serpette to Serpulite
Serpette : A pruning knife with a curved blade.Serpiginous : Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
Serpigo : A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.
Serpolet : Wild thyme.
Serpula : Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
