rattlesnake : Idioms & Phrases

• noun widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States
  Crotalus horridus horridus; banded rattlesnake.
  

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• noun southern variety
  Crotalus horridus atricaudatus; canebrake rattler.
  

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• noun large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings
  Crotalus adamanteus; diamondback.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small rattlesnake (Caudisona, ∨ Sistrurus, miliaria) of the Southern United States, having a small rattle. It has nine large scales on its head.

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• noun small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve
  sidewinder; Crotalus cerastes.
  

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• noun extremely dangerous; most common in areas of scattered scrubby growth; from Mojave Desert to western Texas and into Mexico
  Crotalus scutulatus.
  

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• noun widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies
  prairie rattlesnake; Crotalus viridis; prairie rattler.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the massasauga.

Webster 1913

• noun American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle
  Botrychium virginianum.
  

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• (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.

Webster 1913

• (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.

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• noun coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite
  Eryngium yuccifolium; rattlesnake master; button snakeroot.
  

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• noun any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail
  

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• noun any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme
  helleborine.
  

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• (Bot.), See under Plantain.

Webster 1913

• noun herb of central and southern Europe having purple florets
  Prenanthes purpurea.
  
• noun a plant of the genus Nabalus
  

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

Webster 1913

• noun a hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves; Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky
  Hieracium venosum.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the composite genus Hieracium (H. venosum); probably so named from its spotted leaves. See also Snakeroot.

Webster 1913

• noun coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite
  Eryngium yuccifolium; rattlesnake master; button snakeroot.
  

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• (Bot.) (a) A species of Agave (Agave Virginica) growing in the Southern United States . (b) An umbelliferous plant (Eryngium yuccæfolium) with large bristly-fringed linear leaves . (c) A composite plant, the blazing star (Liatris squarrosa).

Webster 1913

• noun mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest
  Crotalus lepidus.
  

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• noun markings vary but usually harmonize with background; of southwestern Arizona and Baja California
  Crotalus mitchellii.
  

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• noun having irregularly cross-banded back; of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico
  Crotalus tigris.
  

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• noun widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States
  Crotalus horridus horridus; banded rattlesnake.
  

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• noun largest and most dangerous North American snake; of southwestern United States and Mexico
  Crotalus atrox; Western diamondback.
  

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• noun widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies
  prairie rattlesnake; Crotalus viridis; prairie rattler.
  

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