WordNet
n. widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies [syn: prairie rattlesnake, Western rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis]
Usage examples of "prairie rattler".
Two yards of decapitated prairie rattler jerked and flopped in death throes close by their feet as each man yelled and leaped aside.
He was looking for any handy diamondback or prairie rattler that might serve as a snack.
It was the severed head of an adult prairie rattler, jaws gaping as though it were about to strike.
To date, 1 Prairie rattler, 3 Diamond back 8 sidewinders, 12 in all.
Against the Armorer and Ryan Cawdor it had about as much chance of success as trying to beat a prairie rattler for speed.
The head was as pointed as a prairie rattler's and seemed, in that first ghastly glimpse, to be almost entirely mouth.