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Definition of Jararacas
1. jararaca [n] - See also: jararaca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jararacas
Literary usage of Jararacas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The naturalist on the river Amazons by Henry Walter Bates (1863)
"In conversing on the subject of jararacas as we walked onwards, every one of the
... I met, in the course of my daily rambles in the woods, many jararacas, ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... these jararacas, that have a great smell of Muske, and wheresoever they bee,
they are descried by the good and fragrant smell they have. ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"There are other smaller jararacas, that the greatest is about hälfe a yard long,
they are of an ..."
4. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"These snakes are called by the Brazilians jararacas and are very poisonous;
however, I had no fear for myself as I wore heavy buffalo-hide boots, ..."
5. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"There are other smaller jararacas, that the greatest is about halfe a yard long,
they are of an ..."
6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... and its bite, nearly always mortal, is immediately followed by the most poignant
suffering. The jararacas- sfi is a larger variety of the preceding. ..."
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