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rattlesnake ['rætlsneik]

n. 响尾蛇

[医] 响尾蛇

rattlesnake

[ noun ]
pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
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Rattlesnake \Rat"tle*snake`\ (r[a^]t"t'l*sn[=a]k`), n.
(Zo["o]l.)
Any one of several species of venomous American snakes
belonging to the genera {Crotalus} and {Caudisona}, or
{Sistrurus}; sometimes also called {rattler}. They have a
series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail
which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common
rattlesnake of the Northern United States ({Crotalus
horridus}), and the {diamondback rattlesnake} (also called
{diamondback rattler}, and {diamondback}) of the South and
East ({Crotalus adamanteus}) and West ({Crotalus atrox}), are
the best known. See Illust. of {Fang}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

{Ground rattlesnake} (Zo["o]l.), a small rattlesnake
({Caudisona miliaria} or {Sistrurus miliaria}) of the
Southern United States, having a small rattle. It has nine
large scales on its head.

{Rattlesnake fern} (Bot.), a common American fern
({Botrychium Virginianum}) having a triangular decompound
frond and a long-stalked panicle of spore cases rising
from the middle of the frond.

{Rattlesnake grass} (Bot.), a handsome American grass
({Glyceria Canadensis}) with an ample panicle of rather
large ovate spikelets, each one composed of imbricated
parts and slightly resembling the rattle of the
rattlesnake. Sometimes called {quaking grass}.

{Rattlesnake plantain} (Bot.), See under {Plantain}.

{Rattlesnake root} (Bot.), a name given to certain American
species of the composite genus {Prenanthes} ({Prenanthes
alba} and {Prenanthes serpentaria}), formerly asserted to
cure the bite of the rattlesnake. Called also {lion's
foot}, {gall of the earth}, and {white lettuce}.

{Rattlesnake's master} (Bot.)
(a) A species of Agave ({Agave Virginica}) growing in the
Southern United States.
(b) An umbelliferous plant ({Eryngium yucc[ae]folium}) with
large bristly-fringed linear leaves.
(c) A composite plant, the blazing star ({Liatris
squarrosa}).

{Rattlesnake weed} (Bot.), a plant of the composite genus
{Hieracium} ({Hieracium venosum}); -- probably so named
from its spotted leaves. See also {Snakeroot}.

There were water moccasins everywhere and, apparently, an 8ft diamond-back rattlesnake. Next morning I left the Palm Coast and drove south to Daytona Beach.
"He even borrowed $300 from his mother to give to the rattlesnake handler after he saw the snake," Hall said.
A decline in the rattlesnake population "could cause a general collapse of an ecosystem," Barker said.
"I'm thinking about making a doll, or maybe using a rattlesnake vertebra in an arrangement," she says.
Wessendord, who was renting an upstairs apartment from the child's mother, Jeri Ann Kirkwood, at the time, testified that he found the 5-foot rattlesnake on a road and was trying to show the girl that that it would not hurt her.
Because the 150 snakes were freed at the end of the two-day event, no rattlesnake meat was on sale at Opp's 30th Rattlesnake Rodeo for the thousands of people who attended.
But rattlesnake hunting is more than just a sport for a courageous few around this tiny central Oklahoma town.
Activists opposed to the sale of game animals marched Saturday outside a supermarket where rattlesnake, deer, and bear meat were being offered in a test-marketing study.
In another, a rattlesnake with a pointer in its mouth lectures a class of other snakes, showing them a chart of a man's leg with a boot.
The animals include three federally endangered species _ Sanborn's long-nosed bat, the bald eagle and the ridge-nosed rattlesnake.
Ulysses S. Grant When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

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