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单词 cerastes
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Definition of cerastes in English:

cerastes

noun sɪˈrastiːzsəˈræsˌtiz
  • A North African viper which has a spike over each eye.

    角蝰

    Genus Cerastes, family Viperidae: two species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cerastes is the most flexible of all serpents, so flexible that is seems to have no spine.
    • The cerastes hides in the sand so that only its horns show; animals, thinking the horns are food, come close and are killed by the serpent.
    • Crotalus comes from the Greek crotalon, a rattle or little bell; cerastes means horned, referring to the horns above its eyes.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek kerastēs 'horned', from keras 'horn'.

Definition of cerastes in US English:

cerastes

nounsəˈræsˌtizsəˈrasˌtēz
  • A North African viper which has a spike over each eye.

    角蝰

    Genus Cerastes, family Viperidae: two species, in particular the horned viper

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Crotalus comes from the Greek crotalon, a rattle or little bell; cerastes means horned, referring to the horns above its eyes.
    • The cerastes is the most flexible of all serpents, so flexible that is seems to have no spine.
    • The cerastes hides in the sand so that only its horns show; animals, thinking the horns are food, come close and are killed by the serpent.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, from Greek kerastēs ‘horned’, from keras ‘horn’.

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