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cottonmouth
[ kot-n-mouth ]
noun
- a venomous snake, Agkistrodon ( Ancistrodon ) piscivorus, of swamps in southeastern U.S., that grows to about 4 feet (1.2 meters).
cottonmouth
/ ˈkɒtənˌmaʊθ /
Word History and Origins
Origin of cottonmouth1
Example Sentences
Her second young-adult novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, is a coming-of-age fantasy-thriller that flips between the perspective of an asexual teenage Lipan Apache girl and a cottonmouth snake.
But then, mysteriously, they all contracted strange ailments: cottonmouth, headaches, and severe dehydration.
When suddenly approached the moccasin opens wide its white-lined mouth, and one then understands why it is called cottonmouth.
Joe Harmon was small and stout, a little round man with bushy eyebrows and the flabby face of a cottonmouth snake.
The named, American kinds of Agkistrodon currently are arranged as three species: the copperhead, the cantil and the cottonmouth.
All are of late Pleistocene Age and well within the present geographic range of the cottonmouth.
The average for the eastern cottonmouth obtained by Gloyd and Conant, however, was 137 ventrals in both sexes.
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