A venomous Australian snake with a thin wormlike tail that it uses to lure birds and other prey.
棘蛇
Genus Acanthophis, family Elapidae: three species
Example sentencesExamples
The islands are nature reserves and provide refuges for such diverse wildlife as Cape Barren geese, sea lions, tammar wallabies and death adders.
The program profiles two staff members of the Australian Reptile Park as they search for one of Australia's deadliest snakes - the death adder.
At one point I stumble and come within inches of stepping on a death adder - ‘one of the deadliest snakes in Papua,’ Woolford tells me later.
‘We need something like 50 to 60 death adders to milk every two weeks in order to provide a sufficient quantity of venom,’ Weigel estimated.
Cobras can cause local swelling, blistering, and necrosis; other Elapidae such as kraits, coral snakes, and Australian death adders produce negligible local envenoming.
Definition of death adder in US English:
death adder
noun
A venomous Australian snake with a thin wormlike tail that it uses to lure birds and other prey.
棘蛇
Genus Acanthophis, family Elapidae: three species, in particular A. antarcticus
Example sentencesExamples
Cobras can cause local swelling, blistering, and necrosis; other Elapidae such as kraits, coral snakes, and Australian death adders produce negligible local envenoming.
The program profiles two staff members of the Australian Reptile Park as they search for one of Australia's deadliest snakes - the death adder.
‘We need something like 50 to 60 death adders to milk every two weeks in order to provide a sufficient quantity of venom,’ Weigel estimated.
The islands are nature reserves and provide refuges for such diverse wildlife as Cape Barren geese, sea lions, tammar wallabies and death adders.
At one point I stumble and come within inches of stepping on a death adder - ‘one of the deadliest snakes in Papua,’ Woolford tells me later.