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Definition of Ancistrodon
1. Noun. Copperheads.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Crotalidae, Family Crotalidae
Member holonyms: Agkistrodon Contortrix, Copperhead, Agkistrodon Piscivorus, Cottonmouth, Cottonmouth Moccasin, Water Moccasin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancistrodon
Literary usage of Ancistrodon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The genus ancistrodon is composed of ten species, seven of which inhabit Central
Asia generally, though some also extend northward into Siberia, ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"The ancistrodon piscivorus. 1791 The moccasin snake is a large and horrid serpent..
. .There is another snake in Carolina and Florida, called the moccasin. ..."
3. Biennial Report by Field Museum of Natural History (1902)
"ancistrodon. Beauvois. The representatives of this and all the following genera
are poisonous. They include the "Copperheads," "Moccasins," and ..."
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