RATTLESNAKE
\ɹˈatə͡lsnˌe͡ɪk], \ɹˈatəlsnˌeɪk], \ɹ_ˈa_t_əl_s_n_ˌeɪ_k]\
Definitions of RATTLESNAKE
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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A genus of snakes of the family VIPERIDAE, one of the pit vipers, so-called from the pit hollowing out the maxillary bone, opening between the eye and the nostril. They are distinctively American serpents. Most of the 25 recognized species are found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Several species are found as far north as Canada and east of the Mississippi, including southern Appalachia. They are named for the jointed rattle (Greek krotalon) at the tip of their tail. (Goin, Goin, and Zug: Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed; Moore: Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p335)
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A poisonous snake with hard bony rings or scales on the tail which make a clashing sound when the tail is in motion.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A poisonous snake having a number of hard, bony rings loosely jointed at the end of the tail, which make a rattling noise.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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