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COPPERHEAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does copperhead mean?
• COPPERHEAD (noun)
The noun COPPERHEAD has 2 senses:
1. common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
2. venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
Familiarity information: COPPERHEAD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead
Hypernyms ("copperhead" is a kind of...):
pit viper (New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head)
Holonyms ("copperhead" is a member of...):
Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon (copperheads)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
copperhead; Denisonia superba
Hypernyms ("copperhead" is a kind of...):
elapid; elapid snake (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)
Holonyms ("copperhead" is a member of...):
Denisonia; genus Denisonia (copperheads)
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