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Definition of Copperhead
1. Noun. Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States.
Generic synonyms: Pit Viper
Group relationships: Agkistrodon, Ancistrodon, Genus Agkistrodon, Genus Ancistrodon
2. Noun. Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia.
Generic synonyms: Elapid, Elapid Snake
Group relationships: Denisonia, Genus Denisonia
Definition of Copperhead
1. n. A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
Definition of Copperhead
1. Noun. One of two species of snakes, with a copper-colored head. ¹
2. Noun. (pejorative) Someone with ginger hair. ¹
3. Noun. (politics) A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Copperhead
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Medical Definition of Copperhead
1. A poisonous snake of the genus Denisonia in Australia and Agkistrodon in the U.S. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copperhead
Literary usage of Copperhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1899)
"This legislature likewise fell out with its Republican governor.1 The term "
copperhead," which originated in the autumn of 1862, is now used freely. ..."
2. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"THE copperhead (1864) THERE is peace in the swamp where the copperhead sleeps,
Where the waters are stagnant, the white vapor creeps, Where the musk of ..."
3. Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War by Richard Grant White (1866)
"SONG OF THE copperhead. THERE was glorious news, for our arms were victorious — 'T
was sometime ago — and 't was somewhere out West; ..."
4. The Great Conspiracy by John Alexander Logan (1886)
"LINCOLN'S RE- NOMINATION—ENDORSED, AT ALL POINTS, BY HIS PARTY—HIS FAITH IN THE
PEOPLE—HORATIO SEYMOUR'S copperhead DECLARATIONS—THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY ..."
5. Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840 by William Cooper Howells (1895)
"Absence of Game—Wild Fruits—Cultivated Fruits—Supply of Snakes—copperhead
Bites—Exciting Adventure—Remedies of copperhead Poison—Planting an Orchard—Tobacco ..."
6. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"copperhead, ANCISTRODON CONTORTRIX on ichthyology. It is often important to
ascertain the number of vertebrae in fishes for purposes of classification, ..."
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