Crotalus cerastes

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Crotalus cerastes - small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curvehorned rattlesnake, sidewinderrattler, rattlesnake - pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shakenCrotalus, genus Crotalus - large rattlesnakes; seldom bite unless startled or pursuing prey