Scytale
See also: scytale
Translingual
Etymology
Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “staff, club; serpent, of uniform roundness and thickness”)
Proper noun
Scytale f
- Agkistrodon, a genus of venomous pit vipers
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Scytale”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Agkistrodon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia