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Fer-de-Lance
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fer-de-lance

  [fer-dl-ans, -ahns]
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–noun
a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
Origin:
1875–80; < F: lit., spearhead
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Fer-de-Lance
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fer-de-lance   (fěr'dl-āns', -äns')   
n.   pl. fer-de-lance
A venomous tropical American pit viper (Bothrops atrox) having brown and grayish markings.

[French, from fer de lance, spearhead : fer, iron + de, of + lance, spear.]
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