PIT VIPER

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Meaning:

New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pit viper" is a kind of...):

viper (venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pit viper"):

Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead (common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States)

Agkistrodon piscivorus; cottonmouth; cottonmouth moccasin; water moccasin (venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States)

rattler; rattlesnake (pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken)

Bothrops atrops; fer-de-lance (large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America)

Holonyms ("pit viper" is a member of...):

Crotalidae; family Crotalidae (New World vipers: pit vipers)