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Definition of Crotalidae
1. Noun. New World vipers: pit vipers.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Family
Group relationships: Ophidia, Serpentes, Suborder Ophidia, Suborder Serpentes
Member holonyms: Pit Viper, Agkistrodon, Ancistrodon, Genus Agkistrodon, Genus Ancistrodon, Rattler, Rattlesnake, Crotalus, Genus Crotalus, Genus Sistrurus, Sistrurus, Bothrops, Genus Bothrops
Medical Definition of Crotalidae
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotalidae
Literary usage of Crotalidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1871)
"42 crotalidae, 6 ... 15 21 76 The cranium of a snake is built up of a number of
bones which have their homologues in the mammalian skull, ..."
2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The Palaearctic region has only 2 peculiar genera, belonging to the Colubridae
and crotalidae. The Ethiopian has 25, belonging to 11 families; ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"The crotalidae or pit vipers have several genera in India. They are less dangerous
than their American congeners, but are all poisonous. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1900)
"Crotalus Cascavella. A Brazilian Rattle-snake. N. 0. crotalidae. ... The poison
of Cascavella is as deadly as that of the other crotalidae, and the general ..."
5. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1894)
"To the last sub-division, Viperine snakes, belong the crotalidae, ... The crotalidae
of the United States are represented by ten species and three ..."
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