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Definition of night adder in English: night addernoun 1A venomous nocturnal African viper. Genus Causus, family Viperidae: several species, in particular the grey and black C. rhombeatus, common in southern Africa Example sentencesExamples - The night adders, of which there are several species, are classified in the genus Causus.
- The night adders, in terms of the venom gland size to the body size, has the longest venom glands of all snakes.
- The egg-eater has a cats eye shape while the night adder has a round pupil.
- Every morning we shook our shoes for scorpions, and every night we ducked the night adders that fell out of trees.
- There are no leopards in the area anymore to worry about, but beware of the night adders which seem to like the indigenous forest below the cave.
- 1.1South African Any of a number of non-venomous nocturnal colubrid snakes.
Example sentencesExamples - Because the earliest advanced vipers like the Fea's viper and African night adders have all of the head shields and other features of a ‘colubrid’ it will be rather hard to find the basal vipers amongst the rear fanged snakes by any other means than straight DNA testing.
Definition of night adder in US English: night addernoun A venomous nocturnal African viper. Genus Causus, family Viperidae: several species, in particular the gray and black C. rhombeatus, common in southern Africa Example sentencesExamples - Every morning we shook our shoes for scorpions, and every night we ducked the night adders that fell out of trees.
- The night adders, of which there are several species, are classified in the genus Causus.
- There are no leopards in the area anymore to worry about, but beware of the night adders which seem to like the indigenous forest below the cave.
- The egg-eater has a cats eye shape while the night adder has a round pupil.
- The night adders, in terms of the venom gland size to the body size, has the longest venom glands of all snakes.
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