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A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
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A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.
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Poisonous; venomous.
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Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
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Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
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Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.
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To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
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Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
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A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.
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Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
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The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
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A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake (Dipsas dendrophila). It is not venomous.
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A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; -- called also cobra monil.
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A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.
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Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.
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Poison; venom.
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Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
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Venomous.
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Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidae.
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