any of various poisonous American pit vipers (genera Crotalus and Sistrurus), having an interlocking series of horny rings at the end of the tail that produce a rattling or buzzing sound when shaken
rattlesnake
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rattlesnake
noun
Any of various venomous pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the Americas, having at the end of the tail a series of loosely attached, horny segments that can be vibrated to produce a rattling or buzzing sound.
rattlesnake
western massasauga rattlesnake
Sistrurus catenatus subsp. tergeminus
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Noun
(plural rattlesnakes)
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rattlesnake - Medical Definition
n.
Any of various venomous pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the Americas, having at the end of the tail a series of loosely attached, horny segments that can be vibrated to produce a rattling or buzzing sound.
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Sentence Examples
- The prairie rattlesnake is common in the dry plains country.
- Of reptiles, the rattlesnake and copperhead are the only poisonous species, but numerous harmless varieties are common.
- Poisonous or noxious animals usually have some special advertising attribute, sometimes the display of conspicuous coloration, as in the skunk; sometimes the emission of sound as in the rattlesnake; sometimes a combination of the two, as in the common porcupine and the large black scorpions of Africa and India.
- In 1908 there were 8 quarries at Concord, all on Rattlesnake Hill, and all within 2 m.
- On the other hand, the " rattlesnake " men of the Moqui are merely transformations and expect to return at death to their original reptile form (Maclennan, 357).
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