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PIT VIPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pit viper" is a kind of...):
viper (venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pit viper"):
Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead (common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States)
Agkistrodon piscivorus; cottonmouth; cottonmouth moccasin; water moccasin (venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States)
rattler; rattlesnake (pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken)
Bothrops atrops; fer-de-lance (large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America)
Holonyms ("pit viper" is a member of...):
Crotalidae; family Crotalidae (New World vipers: pit vipers)
