单词 | red adder |
释义 | > as lemmasred adder red adder n. now rare (a) U.S. the copperhead snake, Agkistrodon contortrix; (also) a variety of the harmless milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum, which somewhat resembles it; (b) British a small reddish variety of the adder, Vipera berus.Cf. red viper n. ΚΠ 1788 J. Orton Expos. Old Test. 267 A serpent, or red adder, lying in the dust, which may be trod upon unawares.] 1818 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 1 84 Scytalus Cupreus, or Copper-head Snake,..[is known] in New-England, by the names of rattlesnake's mate and red adder. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Copperhead It has various other popular names, as Copper-belly, Red Viper, Red Adder. 1900 W. H. Hudson in Longman's Mag. Jan. 272 The zig-zag mark was intensely black,..but the ground color was a beautiful copper red; he was, I think, the handsomest red adder I have seen. 1937 Wilts. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 48 41 Notice should be taken of a small red adder considered by some as a separate species. 1958 R. Conant Field Guide Reptiles & Amhibians 111 Eastern Milk Snake... Young: Blotches bright red and forming the basis for the name ‘red adder’. < as lemmas |
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