Rattlesnake synonyms

răt'l-snāk'

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rattler
A person or thing that rattles
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pit-viper
Any of various venomous snakes, of the family Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared.
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diamondback
The saltmarsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
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timber rattler
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sidewinder
A small desert rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) of the SW U.S. that moves over shifting sand by looping its body sideways
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belltail
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krait (related)
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snake (related)
A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
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tarantula (related)
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salamander (related)
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water moccasin
A semiaquatic pit viper (Agkistrodon piscivorus) of lowlands and swampy regions of the southeast United States.
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copperhead
Austrelaps, or Australian copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
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hippopotamus (related)
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Rattlesnake Sentence Examples

  • The prairie rattlesnake is common in the dry plains country.

  • Of reptiles, the rattlesnake and copperhead are the only poisonous species, but numerous harmless varieties are common.

  • Poisonous or noxious animals usually have some special advertising attribute, sometimes the display of conspicuous coloration, as in the skunk; sometimes the emission of sound as in the rattlesnake; sometimes a combination of the two, as in the common porcupine and the large black scorpions of Africa and India.

  • In 1908 there were 8 quarries at Concord, all on Rattlesnake Hill, and all within 2 m.

  • To Edward Jenner we owe the discovery that vaccination protects against smallpox, and it is now generally acknowledged that smallpox and vaccine are ' Quoted by Weir Mitchell, "Researches on the Venom of the Rattlesnake," Smithsonian Contributions (1860), p. 97.

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