WATER MOCCASIN

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Meaning:

Any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("water moccasin" is a kind of...):

water snake (any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water)

Holonyms ("water moccasin" is a member of...):

genus Natrix; Natrix (water snakes; a cosmopolitan genus)

Meaning:

Venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States

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Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("water moccasin" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("water moccasin" is a member of...):

Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon (copperheads)