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rattlesnake
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rattlesnake \Rat"tle*snake`\ (r[a^]t"t'l*sn[=a]k`), n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus; sometimes also called rattler. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States ( Crotalus horridus), and the diamondback rattlesnake (also called diamondback rattler, and diamondback) of the South and East ( Crotalus adamanteus) and West ( Crotalus atrox), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. Ground rattlesnake (Zo["o]l.), a small rattlesnake ( Caudisona miliaria or Sistrurus miliaria) of the Southern United States, having a small rattle. It has nine large scales on its head. Rattlesnake fern (Bot.), a common American fern ( Botrychium Virginianum) having a triangular decompound frond and a long-stalked panicle of spore cases rising from the middle of the frond. Rattlesnake grass (Bot.), a handsome American grass ( Glyceria Canadensis) with an ample panicle of rather large ovate spikelets, each one composed of imbricated parts and slightly resembling the rattle of the rattlesnake. Sometimes called quaking grass. Rattlesnake plantain (Bot.), See under Plantain. Rattlesnake root (Bot.), a name given to certain American species of the composite genus Prenanthes ( Prenanthes alba and Prenanthes serpentaria), formerly asserted to cure the bite of the rattlesnake. Called also lion's foot, gall of the earth, and white lettuce. Rattlesnake's master (Bot.)
A species of Agave ( Agave Virginica) growing in the Southern United States.
An umbelliferous plant ( Eryngium yucc[ae]folium) with large bristly-fringed linear leaves.
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A composite plant, the blazing star ( Liatris squarrosa).
Rattlesnake weed (Bot.), a plant of the composite genus Hieracium ( Hieracium venosum); -- probably so named from its spotted leaves. See also Snakeroot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera ''Crotalus'' and ''Sistrurus'', having a rattle at the end of its tail. n. Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera ''Crotalus'' and ''Sistrurus'', having a rattle at the end of its tail.
WordNet
n. pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken [syn: rattler]
Wikipedia
Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). The 36 known species of rattlesnakes have between 65 and 70 subspecies, all native to the Americas, ranging from southern Alberta and southern British Columbia in Canada to central Argentina.
Rattlesnakes are predators that live in a wide array of habitats, hunting small animals such as birds and rodents.
The threat of envenomation, advertised by the loud shaking of the titular noisemaker ("rattle") at the end of their tails, deters many predators. However, rattlesnakes fall prey to hawks, weasels, king snakes, and a variety of other species. Rattlesnakes are heavily preyed upon as neonates, while they are still weak and mentally immature. Large numbers of rattlesnakes are killed by humans. Rattlesnake populations in many areas are severely threatened by habitat destruction, poaching, and extermination campaigns.
Rattlesnake are the leading contributor to snakebite injuries in North America. However, rattlesnakes rarely bite unless provoked or threatened; if treated promptly, the bites are seldom fatal.
Rattlesnake is a steel wild mouse style roller coaster ride which opened in 1998 at the Chessington World of Adventures Resort in southwest London, England. The ride stopped operating as of 5 June 2015, and reopened on 8 September 2015.
"Rattlesnake" is a song by alternative rock group Live, which was released as the fourth and final single from their 1997 album, Secret Samadhi. __TOC__
Rattlesnake is a neighborhood located in the South Tampa district of Tampa, Florida. The estimated population stands at 488.
Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes, genera Crotalus and Sistrurus.
Rattlesnake or Rattlesnakes may also refer to:
- Rattlesnake (Tampa), a neighborhood located in the South Tampa district of Tampa, Florida
- Rattlesnake (roller coaster), a roller coaster ride which opened in 1998 at Chessington World of Adventures
- Rattlesnake Annie, American country singer and songwriter
- Rattlesnake Hills AVA, a wine region in Yakima County, Washington
- Rattlesnake Knob, a summit in Wisconsin
- Texas Rattlesnake, a nickname given to former wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin
- A variety of green bean
- A type of noise sometimes made by a wastegate
- The Rattlesnake (also known as The Carolinian), a 1922 play by Raphael Sabatini and J. E. Harold Terry
Usage examples of "rattlesnake".
It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.
She was continually worrying over rattlesnakes and diphtheria and pneumonia, and begging Brit to sell out and live in town.
Herbie, a massasauga rattlesnake, dry beaded patience coiled under a ledge of gray shale, the only item in the room, besides the cash register, not for sale.
Occasionally, though, they coiled up like rattlesnakes and hissed, scaring the volunteer half to death.
In 1825 he showed up in Santa Fe, translating for the Ute, but most often he wandered the land between the two Plattes, wintering sometimes at the Laramie, sometimes at Rattlesnake Buttes.
The one feature of The Mountain that shed the brownest horror on its woods was the existence of the terrible region known as Rattlesnake Ledge, and still tenanted by those damnable reptiles, which distil a fiercer venom under our cold northern sky than the cobra himself in the land of tropical spices and poisons.
When men reached the area the twin pillars would become known as Rattlesnake Buttes, reassuring beacons in the desert when spotted from afar, dangerous death traps when approached too closely.
Rattlesnake Buttes were apt to leave intruders alone unless the latter did something to frighten them.
At one point a coontail rattlesnake, hiding in the shade of a rock, jerked into an S-coil and buzzed.
U hook, carefully snaring the reptile, he lifted the five-foot Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake until its triangular head peered at him from over the top of the terrarium.
Their hides were clothing enough, a mottled pattern of golds and rusts that reminded him of something between a diamondback rattlesnake and a reticulated giraffe.
It stayed, and Gala Tropile passing by inserted an end of the rattlesnake cord into a drilled, sticky hole, leaving a yard of diamondback tail to trail on the cold ground.
Slowly returning, they all helped Gala Tropile knot the diamondback tails onto one unbroken length of the rattlesnake cord.
Like Cowboy, their driver, he was from the Northwest, and he had an easygoing, seemingly slow-moving style, but his men knew he could change to the speed of a rattlesnake about to strike in a single instant.
Captain Frake had sailed on Friday noon, it is probable that Levi and Elly Zendt would have gone to Oregon without ever knowing that a place like Rattlesnake Buttes in Colorado existed, but the boat did not sail, so on Friday afternoon Levi and Elly strolled along the streets of downtown St.