| 单词 | horned snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorned snake horned snake n. (a) = hoop-snake n. at hoop n.1 Compounds 2; (b) = horned viper n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > farancia abacura (hoop-snake) horn-snake1694 wampum snake1737 horned snake1775 hoop-snake1784 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus or member of genus Cerastes cerastes1398 cerast1572 horned viper1767 horned snake1775 1775 J. Adams Diary 21 Sept. (1961) II. 177 Every dip of his Pen stung like an horned Snake. 1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 27 The bull, the horned and the mockason snakes. 1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. i. vii. 95 The heat of the day brought out a great many snakes; we killed two of very venemous kinds, one the horned snake, as it is called (coluber cerastes). 1851 D. B. Woods Sixteen Months at Gold Diggings 134 It answers the description of horned snake. It is said that, taking the end of its tail in its mouth, it will form a perfect hoop with its body, rolling rapidly over till it reaches the object at which it aims. 1864 J. T. Baines Explor. S.-W. Afr. xiii. 374 I found and captured a cerastes, or horned snake, sixteen or eighteen inches long, lying in the path. < as lemmas |
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