| 单词 | cotton-mouth |
| 释义 | > as lemmascotton-mouth cotton-mouth n. a venomous snake of the southern U.S., a species of the copperhead, so called from having a white streak along the lips. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Agkistrodon > agkistrodon atrofuscus (cotton-mouth) highland moccasin1765 water moccasin1765 cotton-mouth1832 land moccasin1836 1832 G. A. McCall Lett. from Frontiers (1868) 259 I found a large moccason or cotton-mouth snake writhing on the ground. 1842 J. A. Holbrook N. Amer. Herpetol. III. 33 Trigonocephalus piscivorus... Water Moccasin, Vulgo. Cotton Mouth, in the western country. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Cotton-mouth, a poisonous snake of Arkansas. 1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 129 The copperhead..is also known as the cotton-mouth, moccasin and red-eye in the South. 1885 Outing (U.S.) 7 67/2 The slimy moccasin and the deadly cotton-mouth lie in their coils ready to strike. 1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 xix. 194 Every time I sees a cotton-mouth I feels like I had just sit down on one. < as lemmas |
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