| 单词 | water rattlesnake |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater rattlesnake water rattlesnake n. U.S. (now rare) †(a) the water moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus (obsolete); (b) the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Agkistrodon > agkistrodon piscivorus (moccasin) water rattlesnake1737 water viper1737 moccasin snake1765 water moccasin1821 1737 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 254 This Sort is commonly called in Carolina, the Water Rattle-Snake, not that it hath a Rattle, but from the Likeness of its Colour, and its Bite being as mortal. 1799 A. M. F. J. Palisot de Beauvois in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 368 The third, a non-descript, and known by the name of the water rattlesnake, is larger than the former,..and as it lives near the waters, might be presumed to make its food of frogs... I propose then to call [the snake in figure] No. 2. crotalus adamanteus, after the form of the marks on its back. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 96 The Water Viper..is a large species, called in Carolina and some other parts of America the Water Rattle-Snake. Its tail however, instead of a rattle, ends in a somewhat blunt horny point. 1856 Med. Examiner May 267 In all the American Ophidia which I have had the opportunity of examining, as the banded rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus), the water rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus), [etc.]. 1919 Encycl. Americana XXIII. 230/1 The diamond or water rattlesnake..reaches a length of more than eight feet. < as lemmas |
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