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Puff adder   /pəf ˈædər/   Listen
Puff adder

noun
1.
Large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed.  Synonym: Bitis arietans.
2.
Harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed.  Synonyms: hognose snake, sand viper.






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"Puff adder" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cobras ugly, even anything but beautiful; nor, again, the deadly Coral snake of Trinidad, whose beauty tempts children, and even grown people, to play with it, or make a necklace of it, sometimes to their own destruction. But who will call the Puff Adder of the Cape, or this very Fer-de-lance, anything but ugly and horrible: not only from the brutality signified, to us at least, by the flat triangular head and the heavy jaw, but by the look of malevolence and craft signified, to us at least, by the eye and the ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Puff adder" :   colubrid, viper, colubrid snake, Heterodon, genus Heterodon, Bitis, genus Bitis



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