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Swamp snake
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water moccasin
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Redirect Agkistrodon piscivorus
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States [syn: cottonmouth , cottonmouth moccasin , Agkistrodon piscivorus ] any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cottonmouth \cottonmouth\ n. venomous semiaquatic snake ( Agkistrodon piscivorus ) of swamps in southern U.S.; -- called also water moccasin , cottonmouth moccasin , and cottonmouth water moccasin . It grows to a length of about 4 feet. The name refers ...
Usage examples of water moccasin.
At night we camped on a muddy point and killed a water moccasin as we landed.
There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida.
In the order of recorded fatalities, the rattlesnake ranks easily first, with the water moccasin a rather distant second, and the copperhead a very poor third.
By the time Decker reached Pass Manchac all he'd seen was a gray fox, two baby raccoons, and a fresh-dead water moccasin.
Even the so-called water moccasin, which thrives in canals and brackish lagoons, becomes uncommonly restless and aggressive during flood-type conditions.
Flashing back to a case in the emergency room last month - a man brought in with a water moccasin bite, his arm swollen nearly double.
Clambering up, his eye caught a movement near the bottom of the short ladder the scaly spade-shaped head of a huge water moccasin emerged above the water, and the two deep-set eyes gazed blankly into his.
Clambering up, his eye caught a movement near the bottom of the short ladder: the scaly spade-shaped head of a huge water moccasin emerged above the water, and the two deep-set eyes gazed blankly into his.
Once, when a boy, he had been fishing down by the creek bed and had smelled an odour like that, and a water moccasin had wriggled out beneath his legs and splashed in the water.