| 单词 | horned viper |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorned viper horned viper n. a venomous African snake, Cerastes cornutus, distinguished by a horny scale above each eye. ΘΚΠ 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 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 287 The..horned viper of Egypt..is very rare, and scarce to be found in any of the cabinets of natural curiosities in Europe. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. iii. 107 The true Cerastes or Horned Viper is a native of Northern Africa. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xlviii. 251 This year the valley seemed creeping with horned vipers. 1957 K. P. Schmidt & R. F. Inger Living Reptiles of World 162/2 The sharp-tailed worm lizard..is thought erroneously by the natives to be the very poisonous young of the horned viper, Cerastes cornutus. 1973 ‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing iii. 47 ‘Mine was a horned viper—see that?’ He showed me the fang-marks. < as lemmas |
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