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AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
Synonyms:
Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Agkistrodon contortrix" is a kind of...):
pit viper (New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head)
Holonyms ("Agkistrodon contortrix" is a member of...):
Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon (copperheads)