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Puff adder
A viper or adder, Bitis arietans, found in Southern Africa.
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A viper or adder, Bitis arietans, found in Southern Africa.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| sand vipernoun | Any of various snakes: |
| hognose snakenoun | A colubrid snake, from any of three genera, characterized by an upturned snout and notorious for playing dead when threatened. |
| bitis arietansnoun | large african viper that inflates its body when alarmed |
| puffaddernoun | especially, a common puffadder (Bitis arietans), found in Southern Africa. |
| horned vipernoun | Cerastes spp., North African desert vipers. |
| addernoun | Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers. |
| horned addernoun | Any of certain venomous South African vipers |
| forest puff addernoun | Synonym of Gaboon viper. |
| gabon vipernoun | Alternative form of Gaboon viper. [A large venomous viper, Bitis gabonica, found in African rainforests.] |
| eddernoun | (usually in the plural) A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. |
| puff-legnoun | Alternative form of puffleg. [Any of numerous species of hummingbirds of the genera Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia, with large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.] |
| blaasopnoun | Any of several species of pufferfish found in South African waters. |
| puffinnoun | The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. |
| pitvipernoun | Alternative form of pit viper. [Any of various venomous snakes, of the subfamily Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared.] |
| butterfly addernoun | Gaboon viper |
| puffletnoun | Something small and puffy. |
| vipernoun | A venomous snake in the family Viperidae. |
| pufflegnoun | Any of numerous species of hummingbirds of the genera Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia, with large tufts of downy feathers on the legs. |
| blunt-nosed vipernoun | A venomous viper, Macrovipera lebetinus, found in North Africa, much of the Middle East, and as far east as Kashmir. |
| gaboon vipernoun | A large venomous viper, Bitis gabonica, found in African rainforests. |
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