copper-bellyn.
(a) = copperhead n. 1. (b) The common North American water snake, Natrix erythrogaster.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Agkistrodon > agkistrodon contortix (copperhead)
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1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 46 Anguis ventre cuprei coloris. The Copper-belly Snake... They are of a brown Colour, except their Bellies, which are of a muddy Red or Copper Colour.
1788 J. D. Schöpf Reise nordamerikanischen Staaten I. 45 Ich habe mich überall nach der Klapperschlange und dem Kupferbauch (Copper belly, auch Moccoson-Snake genannt,) deren Biss eben so gibtig ist, erkundiget.
1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iii. 54 The Copper-head..has various popular names in different districts..Copper-Belly, Red Viper, Deaf Adder and Chunkhead.
1842 J. E. Holbrook N. Amer. Herpetol. IV. 33 Tropidonotus erythrogaster—Shaw... Copperbelly, Vulgo.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 387 The Copperhead (Trigonocephalus contortrix)..is known as Copperbelly and Chunkhead.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 387 The true Copperbelly (Nerodia erythrogaster) is perfectly harmless and of aquatic habits.
1957 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright Handbk. Snakes U.S. & Canada I. 480 Does the recent school know from sufficient live firsthand experience with each region that the Mississippi Valley yellow belly is the same as the Atlantic coastal copper belly?
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