BOTHROPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bothrops mean? 

• BOTHROPS (noun)
  The noun BOTHROPS has 1 sense:

1. fer-de-lance

  Familiarity information: BOTHROPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTHROPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fer-de-lance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bothrops; genus Bothrops

Hypernyms ("Bothrops" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Bothrops"):

Bothrops atrops; fer-de-lance (large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America)

Holonyms ("Bothrops" is a member of...):

Crotalidae; family Crotalidae (New World vipers: pit vipers)

 Context examples 

A recombinant form of reptilase identical to or similar to the blood-coagulation factor X activator from the tropical snake Bothrops atrox.

(Batroxobin, NCI Thesaurus)