rattlesnake
See also: rattle snake
English
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/
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Noun
A rattlesnake.
rattlesnake (plural rattlesnakes)
- Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
- Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
Synonyms
- rattler (colloquial, especially US)
Hypernyms
- (snake): pit viper
Derived terms
Translations
venomous snake
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References
rattlesnake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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