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Type of terrapin
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diamondback
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings [syn: diamondback rattlesnake , Crotalus adamanteus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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Diamondback may refer to:
Usage examples of diamondback.
Who was victimized during the Diamondback disturbances and may well have a chip on her shoulder, as many do.
Virtually nobody on government payroll, federal through local, had made a single move against the Diamondback mobs.
Mexican bandit was tied to a cottonwood tree and his head sewn-up in a burlap sack of diamondback rattlers.
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.
Tight and entwined as a king snake killing a diamondback rattler, the three went into the window frame and crashed through on to the street below, landing amongst the broken glass, luckily without cutting themselves.
She ended up staying an extra day so she could hike Diamondback Trail.
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.
His movements were lightning fast and that day I saw Jordan react with the speed of an Eastern diamondback when Skeeter made his ill-advised charge.
Lucy could remember the Sabbath when two men failed the test and lay writhing on the floor, felled by an Eastern diamondback that was making his debut appearance.
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.
A tail bigger around than her forearm reared up, amber-colored rattles shaking, as the mutie diamondback prepared to strike.
The Diamondbacks controlled a lot of votes, and you could find people who claimed that the disturbances had come at an awfully convenient time for the Gorton administration.
I was not an example of the kind of country the Diamondbacks had made it seem.
The fact he owned two Eastern Diamondbacks was a mere coincidence and nothing more.