COPPERHEAD
\kˈɒpəhˌɛd], \kˈɒpəhˌɛd], \k_ˈɒ_p_ə_h_ˌɛ_d]\
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common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
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venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
By Princeton University
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common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
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venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
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A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
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A genus of venomous snakes of the subfamily Crotalinae. Twelve species of this genus are found in North and Central America and Asia. Agkistrodon contortrix is the copperhead, A. piscivorus, the cottonmouth. The former is named for its russet or orange-brown color, the latter for the white interior of its mouth. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336; Moore, Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p75)
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.