Found 2 items, similar to Copperhead.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: copperhead
copperhead
n 1: common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United
States [syn:
Agkistrodon contortrix]
2: venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn:
Denisonia superba]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Copperhead
Copperhead
\Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A poisonous American serpent (
Ancistrodon conotortrix
), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but
without rattles; -- called also
copper-belly, and
red viper
.
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2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who
sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]
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