Thesaurus: copperhead
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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- n. A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
- n. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
- n. common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
- n. venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
- 1. (Zoöl.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]
- A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closelyallied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called alsocopper-belly, and red viper.
- n:100 n. common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States n. venomous but sluggish brown">reddish-brown snake of Australia