Morning aftertaste

Usage examples of cottonmouth.

The Mocs were the new home team, having adopted their name and attitude from the cottonmouth snake that was native to the Florida panhandle.

In addition to several species of nonvenomous vipers, there were rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and copperheads with venom drop-for-drop as poisonous as that of a rattler.

Besides that, everybody knowed how that high ground, in storm, drew every critter on these rivers, it was one of the worst places for rattlers, let alone cottonmouths, in all the Islands.

Injuns and cottonmouths and giant gators, and anyways, there was nowhere to run to, nothing but mangrove and deep-water rivers, miles from anywhere.

After all, how many other cottonmouths are lying in wait out there for a defenseless female to stumble over them?

Jude followed him, keeping an eye out for cottonmouths and water moccasins.

It was the people and the animals and the hostility, hostility that was in a league with the swamp billies and the alligators, the coons, the cottonmouths, the Negroes, the climate, the stinking mud and rotting swamp flowers.

Sheriff Amory and two of his deputies, some of the firemen, and a half dozen volunteers got out on the lake in rowboats and dragged nets back and forth, but they only came up with an angry catch of snapping turtles and cottonmouths.

Couple of dead, stuffed rattlers with the rib bones sticking through their taxidermied hides, and one live, but about to go, cottonmouth who didn't have any fangs and looked a lot like a deflated bicycle tire when it was coiled and asleep.

He did so, hoping there were no coral snakes or cottonmouths lurking under the surface of the water as he waded into it and stepped up into the pirogue.

It was heavy enough to make an impression on a cottonmouth moccasin, though he hoped that wouldn't be necessary.

And on my dusty way back, I'd wade some distance up the snaky old creek watching for any sight of a copperhead or cottonmouth moccasin.

She turned toward him a smooth, immobile face with a nose shaped like the business end of a cottonmouth moccasin and nostrils that ran up instead of out.

There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida.