Copperhead meaning

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A venomous snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central United States and northern Mexico, having a tan body with reddish-brown crossbands.
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A Northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
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A poisonous North American pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix) with a copper-colored head and dark-brown cross bands.
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A Northerner who sympathized with the South at the time of the Civil War.
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A venomous snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central United States and northern Mexico, having a tan body with reddish-brown crossbands.
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Any of various types of snakes having a copper-colored head.
  • Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America.
  • Austrelaps, or Australian copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
  • Elaphe radiata, the copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous species found in southern Asia.
  • Deinagkistrodon acutus, the Chinese copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia.
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(pejorative) Someone with ginger hair.
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(US, obsolete, slang) A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War.
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(US, obsolete, pejorative) Any member of the Democratic party. [chiefly 1860s]
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Origin of copperhead

  • After the dangerous copperhead snake, to which propagandists of the Republican Party compared Democrats interested in appeasement.
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Copperhead Sentence Examples

  • Of reptiles, the rattlesnake and copperhead are the only poisonous species, but numerous harmless varieties are common.

  • In the Western states early in 1863 the terms "Copperhead" and "Democrat" had become practically synonymous.

  • Among venomous snakes the harlequin, or coral snake (Elaps fulvius) is common along the coast; the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) along the wooded banks of creeks and rivers; the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), in all parts of the state except the more arid districts; the "sidewiper," or massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus consors, sometimes called Crotalophorus tergeminus) and the ground rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius), in all sections.

  • Minor rattlesnake envenomations can be successfully treated without antivenin, as can copperhead and watermoccasin bites.

  • She shuddered as copperhead snake slid off a rock where it was sunning.

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