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rattlesnake
[ rat-l-sneyk ]
noun
- any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.
rattlesnake
/ ˈrætəlˌsneɪk /
noun
- any of the venomous New World snakes constituting the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus , such as C. horridus ( black or timber rattlesnake ): family Crotalidae (pit vipers). They have a series of loose horny segments on the tail that are vibrated to produce a buzzing or whirring sound
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In May 2012, Mark Wolford, a third-generation snake handler, also died after being bitten by a rattlesnake.
You can even purchase a “Canned Exotic Meat Gift Set,” which includes rattlesnake, alligator, elk, and buffalo.
In other words, a bunch of guys grabbing their guns and waving a flag emblazoned with a rattlesnake is not a militia.
If you don't take vitamins on a regular basis it's like going to bed with a rattlesnake,” he declared, “it's going to get you.
Unlike European vamps, Skinner is powered by the sun and, true to his native environment, has rattlesnake fangs.
Quite a shower of shell fell all about us, the Turks having spotted there was some sort of "bloke" on the Rattlesnake.
Most of us showed signs, I will not say of being rattled, but of having stumbled against a rattlesnake.
Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.
Several times she had startled antelope, and once her horse had shied at a rattlesnake coiled in the sunshine.
We both knowed well enough it was some more work of the rattlesnake-skin; so what was the use to talk about it?
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