英语词汇“cerastes”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cerastes

/sɪˈrastiːz

noun

A North African viper which has a spike over each eye.

The cerastes hides in the sand so that only its horns show; animals, thinking the horns are food, come close and are killed by the serpent....

Crotalus comes from the Greek crotalon, a rattle or little bell; cerastes means horned, referring to the horns above its eyes.
The cerastes is the most flexible of all serpents, so flexible that is seems to have no spine.

Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek kerastēs 'horned', from keras 'horn'.

单词	cerastes
释义	cerastes /sɪˈrastiːz / noun A North African viper which has a spike over each eye. Genus Cerastes, family Viperidae: two species. The cerastes hides in the sand so that only its horns show; animals, thinking the horns are food, come close and are killed by the serpent.... Crotalus comes from the Greek crotalon, a rattle or little bell; cerastes means horned, referring to the horns above its eyes. The cerastes is the most flexible of all serpents, so flexible that is seems to have no spine. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek kerastēs 'horned', from keras 'horn'.
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