snakeskins
Reptile leather material
Snakeskins are the shed outer layers of snake skin, or leather made from them.
Snakeskin is prized for accessories—boots, belts, handbags—valued for its distinctive scale pattern: She wore snakeskin heels.
The plural emphasizes multiple pieces or items rather than the material itself.
Periodic shedding of covering
- sloughingDiscarding dead outer layers
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- shedCast off naturally
- castoffDiscarded item or person
keratin · epidermis · growth · peeling · discarded · translucent · papery · hollow
Cold-blooded scaled vertebrate
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- viperFanged toxic serpent
- pythonNonvenomous squeezing snake
- cobraHooded venomous serpent
rattlesnake · boa · cold-blooded · scales · slither · constriction · venom · camouflage
Nonvenomous squeezing snake
- leatherTanned animal skin
- handbagsPortable personal storage accessories
- bootsAnkle-covering footwear
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
luxury · designer · accessories · belts · wallets · watchbands · clutches · stilettos
Plates or weighing devices
- patternedHaving repeated decorative designs
- glossySmooth and shiny
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
- dryFree from moisture
iridescent · flexible · supple · diamond · banded · speckled · mottled · ridged
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- renewalMaking current again
- transformationThorough change in form
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- regenerationBiological self-repair process
healing · medicine · caduceus · wisdom · temptation · fertility · protection · folklore
molting
Periodic shedding of covering
castoff · keratin · epidermis · growth · peeling · discarded · translucent · papery · hollow · intact
reptile
Cold-blooded scaled vertebrate
cobra · rattlesnake · boa · cold-blooded · scales · slither · constriction · venom · camouflage · adaptation
python
Nonvenomous squeezing snake
exotic · luxury · designer · accessories · belts · wallets · watchbands · clutches · stilettos · jackets
scales
Plates or weighing devices
- patternedHaving repeated decorative designs
- glossySmooth and shiny
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
dry · iridescent · flexible · supple · diamond · banded · speckled · mottled · ridged · keeled
rebirth
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- renewalMaking current again
- transformationThorough change in form
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
regeneration · healing · medicine · caduceus · wisdom · temptation · fertility · protection · folklore · talisman