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单词 water adder
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water adder
water adder n. any water snake thought to resemble an adder; esp. any colubrid water snake of the Old World genus Natrix or the New World genus Nerodia. [Compare Old High German wazzarnātara (Middle High German wazzernāter, German †Wassernatter), and also Dutch wateradder (16th cent., now only with reference to North American water snakes).]
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 216 Ydris, wæternedrum.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ix. 1127 Somme beþ water addres and wonyeþ in brymmes of watres, as þe serpent arendir þat is a water addre [L. serpens aquatilis].
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest iii. f. 69 Plinie saith..that the fat or brawne of the Adder, especially the water Adder, remedieth the stinging and byting of the Crocodile.
1651 L. Sowerby Ladies Dispensatory 254 (heading) Against the bitings of a water Adder.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 10 May (2002) VIII. 111 When I turned over the male had a glimpse of a reddish or orange belly.—Were they water adders or black snakes?
2004 J. W. Gibbons & M. E. Dorcas N. Amer. Watersnakes ii. 182/2 The following names have been used to refer to the various subspecies of Nerodia sipedon: banded water snake, black (water) snake, black water adder, [etc.].
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