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‖ jararaca|dʒɑːrəˈrɑːkə|
[Native name in Tupi-Guarani.]
A venomous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops Jararaca) of the family Crotalidæ.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 842 Snakes, as the Iararaca, of..foure kinds, of muskie sent, one ten spannes long. 1708tr. Nieuhoff's Brazil in Pinkerton Voy. (1808) XIV. 714 The serpent Jararaka is short, seldom exceeding the length of an arm to the elbow. 1825A. Caldcleugh Trav. S. Amer. I. ii. 40 The jararáca is sometimes..six feet in length. |