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Definition of Gaboon viper
1. Noun. Large heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely venomous west African viper.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaboon Viper
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 ..."