horned viper

noun

a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.

horned viper

a venomous snake, Cerastes cornutus, that occurs in desert regions of N Africa and SW Asia and has a small horny spine above each eye: family Viperidae (vipers) Also calledsand viper

First recorded in 1760–70

We have been inquiring of Radi after the more dangerous species, and he describes very accurately the horned viper and the cobra.

If he should make the slightest move, the reptile, a deadly horned viper, would strike.

In the two species of Cerastes, or Horned Viper, the eyebrows of the male bear commonly a sort of horn.

Over each eye there is a scaly spine or horn, from which the name horned viper is derived.

Among reptiles are several kinds of venomous snakes—the horned viper, the hooded snake and the echis.

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