bushmaster
a pit viper, Lachesis muta, of tropical America, that grows to a length of 12 feet (3.6 meters).
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For example, the very bushmaster AR-15 used by Adam Lanza in Newtown and by James Holmes in Aurora is perfectly legal.
Perhaps by chance that was the same year Nancy bought the bushmaster.
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Though generally smaller than the bushmaster, it attains a length of eight feet or more.
The Western World | W.H.G. KingstonBut we may fancy how desperate would be the strife between a python and the venomous bushmaster of Demerara.
The Western World | W.H.G. Kingston
Almost as much dreaded as the jararaca is the enormous cuanacouchi (Lachésis mutus), or bushmaster, as it is called in Demerara.
The Western World | W.H.G. KingstonSomebody stashed a bushmaster here in my locker to meet me when I dressed for surgery.
Vigorish | Gordon Randall GarrettInstinctively, Will's hand flashed out and caught the bushmaster by the neck.
The Inca Emerald | Samuel Scoville
British Dictionary definitions for bushmaster
/ (ˈbʊʃˌmɑːstə) /
a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
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