Copperhead definition
- 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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Origin of copperhead
- After the dangerous copperhead snake, to which propagandists of the Republican Party compared Democrats interested in appeasement.
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