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单词 moccasin snake
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moccasin snake
3. In full moccasin snake. A North American pit viper of the genus Agkistrodon; spec. (a) the semiaquatic A. piscivorus of the southern United States, a large, dangerous snake which inhabits lowland swamps and waterways (more fully water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin); (b) the copperhead, A. contortrix (more fully highland moccasin). Also: any of various similar but non-venomous snakes, esp. of the genus Natrix (family Colubridae).
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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 atrofuscus (cotton-mouth)
highland moccasin1765
water moccasin1765
cotton-mouth1832
land moccasin1836
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Agkistrodon > agkistrodon piscivorus (moccasin)
water rattlesnake1737
water viper1737
moccasin snake1765
water moccasin1821
1765 J. Bartram Diary 5 Aug. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) 33 18/1 We killed a Moccasin snake & toward noon it rained & thundred excedingly.
1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 27 The horned and the mockason snakes.
1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. vii. 54 The most noxious, virulent, and deleterious of the species, the rattle, moccasson, and horn-snakes.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 272 The moccasin snake is a large and horrid serpent.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 273 There is another snake in Carolina and Florida called the moccasin.
1836 M. Holley Texas v. 104 Land and water moccasin..are the only venomous snakes, besides the rattlers, found in Texas.
1849 Catal. Snakes Brit. Mus. 16 The Black-brown Mocassin, Cenchris atrofuscus.
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 7 Aug. 171/3 We passed a large moccasin snake (a deadly species) right in our path.
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 394 The so-called highland-mocassin, Ancistrodon atrofuscus, has not been collected since the time of its original description. It and A. piscivorus are undoubtedly the same species.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 292/2 A. contortrix the ‘moccasin-snake’ or ‘copper-head’.
1933 F. H. Cheley Camping Out 206 There are two kinds: the water-mocassin, or cotton-mouth,..and the copperhead, which is the highland, or northern moccasin.
1957 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright Handbk. Snakes (1994) II. 908 Customarily called dry-land moccasins, they live in rocky ledges, stretches of dry woods, [etc.].
1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes iv. 80 As recently as 1943, it was claimed that moccasin venom had been used with success in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead viii. 181 Dean had never seen Ray's face in such a configuration of anger, loathing,..recognition, as though he suddenly realized he had been in bed with a cottonmouth moccasin or a stinking dog.
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