serpent cucumber (serpentkukumber)

Same as snake - cucumber; also, a long-fruited variety of the muskmelon. See cucumber. serpent-deity (sėr'pent-dē"i-ti), i), n. The deity, divinity, or god of the Ophites, otherwise known as the god Abraxas. He is commonly represented in the form of a man with a hawk's head, legs like twin serpents, and holding in one hand a scourge and in the other a shield. This figure is one of the commonest and most characteristic of the so-called Gnostic gems, and is modified from a conventional figure of Horus or Osiris. Also called ophis, serpent - god, snake- deity, etc. See cuts under Abraxas.