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单词 copperhead
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Definition of copperhead in English:

copperhead

noun ˈkɒpəhɛdˈkɑpərˌhɛd
  • Any of a number of stout-bodied venomous snakes with coppery-pink or reddish-brown coloration.

    铜头(蝮)蛇,尤指

    a North American pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix, family Viperidae).Also called highland moccasin

    an Australian snake of the cobra family (genus Austrelaps, family Elapidae, in particular A. superbus).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The copperhead, a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy adult humans.
    • They call it Snake Road, a gravel lane through southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, where each spring and fall automobile traffic is prohibited to ensure the safe passage of timber rattlers, water moccasins, and copperheads.
    • I heard you used to grab rattlesnakes and copperheads by the tail and snap them like a whip to break their necks.
    • After college, he spent a year in the domestic peace corps in Delaware, where he often visited Philadelphia, and West Virginia, where he tried to avoid stepping on copperhead snakes.
    • He had been raised by humans since birth, so he wasn't trained in basic chimpanzee survival skills or accustomed to the wilds of Oklahoma, where water moccasins and copperheads abounded.
    • It was diverse dialogue - me with stories about water moccasins, copperheads, and alligators, and Bobby describing the land of no snakes whatsoever.
    • Bites from copperhead snakes, which are common in the eastern United States, seldom require antivenin therapy because they have the least potent venom and a negligible fatality rate.
    • There were water snakes in the bottomland, rattlesnakes wedged between the rocks of wooden areas, and copperheads all over the place - especially in the shade under bushes and tobacco plants.
    • This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads.
    • Through my binoculars, I saw the heat-sensing facial pit between the eye and nostril, which identifies the copperhead as a pit viper.
    • Frankly, my only concern was that the resident copperhead (don't ask; I've been sworn to secrecy) got out alive.
    • Dogs bitten by any of Texas' dangerous snakes, including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads and coral snakes, often suffer unnecessarily.
    • Water moccasins and copperheads are plentiful (as in ‘about everywhere’) in the sorts of places I spend my free time and during the course of the last several decades I have had quite a few unpleasant encounters with the little monsters.
    • The guineas have had to contend with a lot of copperheads and a few garter snakes, which average 8-to 10-inches long.
    • In the United States, about 8,000 people a year are bitten by rattlers or their cousins in the pit viper subfamily, which includes copperheads and water moccasins.
    • In the past 14 months on the job he has had more than a few run-ins with deadly snakes, including having a copperhead curl up near his bare feet in his small apartment in the ranch's horse barn.
    • We said we did not and he informed us the dead snake was a decidedly poisonous copperhead, a creature apparently known to travel in pairs.
    • Join us each day for stories about serpents, from flying snakes to Vietnamese cobras and North American copperheads.
    • Ooze into the shadows and try not to sit on a copperhead snake or a bed of fire ants.
    • The writer cited instances of guineas eating pests like grasshoppers and ticks, along with incidents of guineas killing poisonous copperheads and other snakes.

Definition of copperhead in US English:

copperhead

nounˈkäpərˌhedˈkɑpərˌhɛd
  • Any of a number of stout-bodied venomous snakes with coppery-pink or reddish-brown coloration.

    铜头(蝮)蛇,尤指

    an Australian snake of the cobra family (genus Austrelaps, family Elapidae, in particular A. superbus)

    a North American pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix, family Viperidae). Also called highland moccasin

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We said we did not and he informed us the dead snake was a decidedly poisonous copperhead, a creature apparently known to travel in pairs.
    • The writer cited instances of guineas eating pests like grasshoppers and ticks, along with incidents of guineas killing poisonous copperheads and other snakes.
    • Water moccasins and copperheads are plentiful (as in ‘about everywhere’) in the sorts of places I spend my free time and during the course of the last several decades I have had quite a few unpleasant encounters with the little monsters.
    • The copperhead, a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy adult humans.
    • After college, he spent a year in the domestic peace corps in Delaware, where he often visited Philadelphia, and West Virginia, where he tried to avoid stepping on copperhead snakes.
    • They call it Snake Road, a gravel lane through southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, where each spring and fall automobile traffic is prohibited to ensure the safe passage of timber rattlers, water moccasins, and copperheads.
    • Ooze into the shadows and try not to sit on a copperhead snake or a bed of fire ants.
    • I heard you used to grab rattlesnakes and copperheads by the tail and snap them like a whip to break their necks.
    • Frankly, my only concern was that the resident copperhead (don't ask; I've been sworn to secrecy) got out alive.
    • He had been raised by humans since birth, so he wasn't trained in basic chimpanzee survival skills or accustomed to the wilds of Oklahoma, where water moccasins and copperheads abounded.
    • Through my binoculars, I saw the heat-sensing facial pit between the eye and nostril, which identifies the copperhead as a pit viper.
    • There were water snakes in the bottomland, rattlesnakes wedged between the rocks of wooden areas, and copperheads all over the place - especially in the shade under bushes and tobacco plants.
    • In the past 14 months on the job he has had more than a few run-ins with deadly snakes, including having a copperhead curl up near his bare feet in his small apartment in the ranch's horse barn.
    • It was diverse dialogue - me with stories about water moccasins, copperheads, and alligators, and Bobby describing the land of no snakes whatsoever.
    • This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads.
    • In the United States, about 8,000 people a year are bitten by rattlers or their cousins in the pit viper subfamily, which includes copperheads and water moccasins.
    • The guineas have had to contend with a lot of copperheads and a few garter snakes, which average 8-to 10-inches long.
    • Join us each day for stories about serpents, from flying snakes to Vietnamese cobras and North American copperheads.
    • Dogs bitten by any of Texas' dangerous snakes, including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads and coral snakes, often suffer unnecessarily.
    • Bites from copperhead snakes, which are common in the eastern United States, seldom require antivenin therapy because they have the least potent venom and a negligible fatality rate.
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