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单词 puff adder
释义

puff adder

noun

1
: a large thick-bodied extremely venomous African viper (Bitis arietans)
2
: hognose snake

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The 22-year-old, who owned a venomous puff adder, was treated with anti-venom in Connolly Hospital, the Irish Post reported last month. Fox News, 7 Mar. 2020 This was apparently the case with the man who was bitten in late February by a puff adder, a venomous snake native to semiarid regions (i.e., not Ireland). Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2020 The researchers captured puff adder shy sharks in a harbor in Cape Town, South Africa, and transported them to a government research aquarium, where the fish acclimated for four months. Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2019 So Glaudas and Alexander captured 86 puff adders, implanted tiny radio transmitters into their bodies, and tracked their movements inside Dinokeng Game Reserve. Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2017 Take the South African puff adder Bitis arietans, which mimics an insect's movements by wagging its tongue slowly and deliberately to attract nearby amphibians. National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017 On the film, a puff adder (Bitis arietans) had extended its tongue, leaving the tip curled up—unlike the usual flicking in and out to sense its surroundings. Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

puff adder

noun

: a large thick-bodied exceedingly venomous widely distributed African viper (Bitis arietans) that inflates its body and hisses loudly when disturbed
also : a similar smaller snake (B. inornata) of southern Africa

puff adder

noun

as in green snake

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