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Definition of Cottonmouth moccasin
1. Noun. Venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States.
Generic synonyms: Pit Viper
Group relationships: Agkistrodon, Ancistrodon, Genus Agkistrodon, Genus Ancistrodon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottonmouth Moccasin
Literary usage of Cottonmouth moccasin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Texas by Harry Yandell Benedict, John Avery Lomax (1916)
"Suffice it to mention the harmless coach-whip, black, bull, and water snakes,
and the poisonous coral, copperhead, cottonmouth, moccasin, and eight ..."
2. The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast by Ambrose Elliott Gonzales (1922)
"By his side, a companion in death, was a cottonmouth moccasin, beaten almost to
a pulp. The road was flanked on either side by a canal half filled with ..."
3. Orlando & Central Florida by Don Philpott (1999)
"700 species of fish, 40 species of snake — the four poisonous types are rattlesnake,
coral, cottonmouth moccasin and copperhead — and many other reptiles of ..."
4. Biennial Report of the Board of Curators of the Louisiana State Museum to by Louisiana State Museum Board of Curators (1914)
"The cottonmouth moccasin and harmless water snakes are exceptionally common.
The green tree frog finds an ideal habitat and its metallic notes are heard ..."
5. The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism & Violence edited by Sara Bullard (1998)
"But White's race was enough to make him a target of local Klansmen. Members of
the cottonmouth moccasin Gang, a faction of ..."
6. Outlines of Economic Zoölogy by Albert Moore Reese (1919)
"... 167, 169 water, 163, 164 copperhead, 153154, 156, 159, 160, 162 effect of
bite, 161 cottonmouth moccasin, 159 diamond rattler, 161, 162 Emory's coluber, ..."
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