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water moccasin
noun
- the cottonmouth.
- any of various similar but harmless snakes, as a water snake of the genus Nerodia.
water moccasin
noun
- a large dark grey venomous snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, of swamps in the southern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers) Also calledcottonmouth
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Example Sentences
Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail pioneer, says that tactic is like a water moccasin, silent but deadly.
"But I thought you said it was a water moccasin," I objected.
The water-moccasin is about two feet in length, and has a circumference of five or six inches.
The Water Moccasin is dull olive with wide black transverse bands.
This upland moccasin is named in science Ancistrodon contortrix; its brother species, the water moccasin, is A. piscivorus.
Circumstantial evidence indicated that it was killed by the bite of a water moccasin.
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