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Copperhead

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Noun

1. agkistrodon contortrix, copperhead

common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States

2. copperhead, denisonia superba

venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Copperhead

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noun
1. 
a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
2. 
a venomous reddish-brown Australian elapid snake, Denisonia superba
3. US informal
a Yankee supporter of the South during the Civil War

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Copperhead

see synonyms of copperhead
noun
1. 
a poisonous North American pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix) with a copper-colored head and dark-brown cross bands
2.  [C-]; Informal, Obsolete
a Northerner who sympathized with the South at the time of the Civil War
, so called in the North

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Copperhead

see synonyms of copperhead
n.
1. A venomous snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central United States and northern Mexico, having a tan body with reddish-brown crossbands.
2. Copperhead A Northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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