As the title says, what is the difference/relationship between snakes, serpents, and vipers? Are they subsets? Synonyms? Taxonomy? I’m really dumb so please make it simple.
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Serpent and snake are synonyms; “snake” is Germanic, “serpent” is Latin. Today “snake” is used in 99% of contexts.
Vipers are one particular family of snakes, the [*viperidae*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viperidae). All vipers are snakes, not all snakes are vipers (e.g. pythons are not vipers).
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