单词 | russell's viper |
释义 | Russell's viper in American English a very poisonous viper (Vipera russeli) of SE and SC Asia, with a pale-brown body and ringlike black spots edged with white or yellow Word origin after P. Russell, 18th-c. Brit physicianRussell's viper in American Englishnoun a large venomous snake, Vipera russelli, common in India and southeastern Asia, having three rows of large, black-edged brown spots on a light-brown body Word origin [1905–10; named in honor of Patrick Russell (1727–1805), Scottish physician and naturalist]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aspect ratio, overcall, push-up, scrounge, thiamine |
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