rattlesnake

See also: rattle snake

English

Alternative forms

• rattle snake

Etymology

From rattle +‎ snake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

A rattlesnake.

rattlesnake (plural rattlesnakes)

1. Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

   Synonym: (US, colloquial) rattler

   • 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.

Hypernyms

• (snake): pit viper

Derived terms

• 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 weed
• rattlesnaking
• timber rattlesnake
• western diamondback rattlesnake
• white rattlesnake root

Translations

venomous snake

• Arabic: أَفْعًى مُجَلْجِلَة f (ʔafʕan mujaljila)
• Basque: kriskitin-suge
• Bulgarian: гърмяща змия f (gǎrmjašta zmija)
• Catalan: serp de cascavell f
• Cherokee: ᎤᏦᎾᏘ (utsonati)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 響尾蛇 / 响尾蛇 (hoeng² mei⁵ se⁴)

  Mandarin: 響尾蛇 / 响尾蛇 (zh) (xiǎngwěishé)

• Czech: chřestýš (cs) m
• Danish: klapperslange (da)
• Dutch: ratelslang (nl) f
• Esperanto: krotalo, sonserpento
• Finnish: kalkkarokäärme (fi)
• French: crotale (fr) m, serpent à sonnettes m
• Galician: serpe de cascabel f
• Georgian: ჩხრიალა გველი (čxriala gveli)
• German: Klapperschlange (de) f
• Greek: κροταλίας (el) m (krotalías)
• Hindi: रैटल स्नेक m (raiṭal snek)
• Hungarian: csörgőkígyó (hu)
• Icelandic: skröltormur m
• Ido: krotalo (io)
• Irish: nathair shligreach f, péist ghliogair f
• Italian: crotalo (it) m, serpente a sonagli m
• Japanese: ガラガラ蛇 (garagarahebi), ガラガラヘビ (garagarahebi)
• Karok: tapas'ápsuun
• Klamath-Modoc: qɁis
• Korean: 방울뱀 (ko) (bang'ulbaem)
• Latin: quatiator m
• Latvian: klaburčūska f
• Lithuanian: barškuolė (lt) f
• Macedonian: ѕвечарка f (dzvečarka)
• Malay: ular orok-orok
• Nahuatl:

  Central: tepocolcoatl

  Central Huasteca: kuechkoatl

  Classical: teuctlacozauhqui

  Western Huasteca: kuejkuech

• Nanticoke: eeh!seekq
• Navajo: tłʼiish áníní, naʼashǫ́ʼii ánínígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klapperslange m

  Nynorsk: klapperorm m

• Ojibwe: zhiishiigwe
• Polish: grzechotnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: cascavel (pt) f
• Romanian: șarpe cu clopoței (ro)
• Russian: грему́чая змея́ (ru) f (gremúčaja zmejá), грему́чник (ru) m (gremúčnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: звечарка f

  Roman: zvečarka (sh) f, čegrtuša (sh) f

• Silesian: szczyrkowa f
• Slovak: štrkáč m
• Slovene: klopotača (sl) f
• Spanish: serpiente de cascabel (es) f, cascabel (es) f
• Swedish: skallerorm (sv) c
• Taos: pę̀cuʼúna
• Turkish: çıngıraklı yılan (tr)
• Ukrainian: гриму́ча змі́я f (hrymúča zmíja)
• Vietnamese: rắn chuông, rắn đuôi chuông

References

• rattlesnake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia