copperhead

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  1. noun A venomous snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central United States, having a reddish-brown body marked with darker crossbands arranged in an hourglass pattern.
  2. noun A Northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.

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  • Someone caught a big copperhead, one of the meanest of all poisonous snakes, and one which is quite rare here, fortunately, and for a time Father kept it in a barrel near Slabsides. —  My Boyhood
  • A rattler is an open enemy, but you never know that a copperhead is around until he strikes. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
  • "Wonder whatever happened to the summerhouse where Mrs. Frayne got bitten by the copperhead," she said, tugging at a ropelike vine. —  The Secret Of The Mansion
  • It could have been a copperhead, she thought wildly. —  The Secret Of The Mansion
  • Lookit him! —  A Canticle for Leibowitz
 

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  1. from copper + head; so called from the bright-reddish color of its head.
 

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/ˈkɑpərhɛd/
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