pit viper
Noun
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New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head (synset 101756600)
is a type of: viper - venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jawsubtypes:
- 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
- rattler, rattlesnake - pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
- bothrops atrops, fer-de-lance - large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America
belongs to: crotalidae, family crotalidae - New World vipers: pit vipers
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