rattlesnake
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See also: rattle snake
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]rattlesnake (plural rattlesnakes)
- Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
- Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
- 2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90:
- The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.
Synonyms
[edit]- rattler (colloquial, especially US)
Hypernyms
[edit]- (snake): pit viper
Derived terms
[edit]- Boott's rattlesnake root
- diamondback rattlesnake
- downy rattlesnake
- horned rattlesnake
- Mexican west coast rattlesnake
- rattlesnake fern
- rattlesnake grass
- rattlesnake master
- rattlesnake plantain
- rattlesnake root
- rattlesnake root
- rattlesnake weed
- rattlesnaking
- timber rattlesnake
- western diamondback rattlesnake
- white rattlesnake root
Translations
[edit]venomous snake
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References
[edit]- rattlesnake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia