Definition of Gaboon viper

1. Noun. Large heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely venomous west African viper.

Exact synonyms: Bitis Gabonica
Generic synonyms: Viper
Group relationships: Bitis, Genus Bitis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaboon Viper

gable roofs
gable wall
gabled
gablelike
gables
gablet
gablets
gabling
gablock
gablocks
gabnash
gabnashes
gabon
gabonase
gaboon
gaboon viper (current term)
gaboons
gaboxadol
gabrielite
gabrielsonite
gabs
gaby
gac
gack
gacked
gacking
gacks
gad
gadabouts

Literary usage of Gaboon viper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
""A holy man—a Moslem—brought that girl to Sidi-Bel-Abbis, a holy man with a heart like a gaboon viper. He brought her to Sidi-Bel-Abbis to sell her, ..."

2. Divine Imagining: An Essay on the First Principles of Philosophy, Being a by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1921)
"Clearly a world, thus divided against itself, a world which evolved the parasite, the weasel, the gaboon viper, and the sawfish, and drove the South Sea ..."

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