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labaria|læˈbɑːrɪə|
Also labarri, labarria.
[Amer. Sp., prob. f. native name.]
A name used in Guyana for any of several poisonous coral snakes or pit vipers, esp. the fer-de-lance, Trimeresurus (or Bothrops) atrox, and the bush-master, Lachesis muta.
1825C. Waterton Wanderings i. 12 The Labarri snake is speckled, of a dirty brown colour. Ibid. iii. 185 One day..I caught a Labarri alive. 1889J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 76 It was a snake, and as its colour could be distinguished, he perceived that it must be the deadly labarria. 1903Sci. Amer. 7 Mar. 176 The Labarri is usually found coiled on the stump of a tree. 1918W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) viii. 188 ‘Huge labaria, yards long! Big as leg!’ The flight of queen bees and their swarms, the call to arms in a sleeping camp creates somewhat the commotion that the news of the bush-master aroused with us. 1956D. Attenborough Zoo Quest to Guiana x. 145 Labaria is the local name for the fer-de-lance, one of the most dangerous and venomous of all the South American snakes. 1958J. Carew Wild Coast vi. 78 Only the small poisonous snakes like the labaria were really dangerous. 1968Daily Tel. 24 July 20/4 The terrain is..full of dangerous snakes including the lethal labaria. |