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ˈhog-nose
A name given to some N. American species of ugly but harmless snakes of the genus Heterodon. More fully hog-nose snake.
1736Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 257 Anguis capite Viperino: The Hog-Nose Snake. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 219 Bluish Green Snake with a stretched out triangular nose, or Hognose Snake, Coluber mycterizans. 1842J. E. De Kay Zool. N. York iii. Reptiles 51–2 The Hog-nosed Snake, Heterodon platyrhinos. This well known species has a venomous aspect..It is also called..Hog-nose.
So hog-nosed a., in hog-nosed boa, hog-nosed snake.
1802Shaw Zoology III. 361 Hog-nosed Boa. Boa Contortrix..a native of North America. 1842[see above]. |