AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX

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Meaning:

Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States

Synonyms:

Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead

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Nouns denoting animals

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

pit viper (New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head)

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

Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon (copperheads)

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