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AGKISTRODON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Copperheads

Synonyms:

Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Agkistrodon" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Agkistrodon"):

Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead (common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States)

Agkistrodon piscivorus; cottonmouth; cottonmouth moccasin; water moccasin (venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States)

Holonyms ("Agkistrodon" is a member of...):

Crotalidae; family Crotalidae (New World vipers: pit vipers)

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