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puff adder
noun
- a large, thick-bodied, African viper, Bitis arietans, that inflates its body and hisses when disturbed.
- a similar viper, B. inornata, native to southern Africa.
puff adder
noun
- a large venomous African viper, Bitis arietans, that is yellowish-grey with brown markings and inflates its body when alarmed
- another name for hognose snake
Word History and Origins
Origin of puff adder1
Example Sentences
State law restricts possession of the speckled rattlesnake, as well as the Uganda puff adders, the Western diamondback and other snakes Sneddon sold, according to federal prosecutors.
Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
Most commonly found in Morocco and Western Arabia, the puff adder is known to cause the most snakebite fatalities in Africa.
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.
The species will also spread its neck like a cobra and hiss, which has earned them the nicknames “puff adder” and “spreading adder,” the group said.
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