cottonmouth

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English

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Etymology

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From cotton +‎ mouth.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cottonmouth (plural cottonmouths)

  1. (medicine, uncountable) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
  2. A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
  3. A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.

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