pit viper in English

noun
1
a venomous snake of a group distinguished by visible sensory pits on the head that can detect heat emitted by their prey. They are found in both America and Asia.
Madam Relena had returned to her couch and now sat imperiously in it watching Mark as a pit viper does its prey.

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1. Tibetan pit-viper venom.

2. Copperheads are venomous snakes and members of the pit viper family

3. The Copperhead snake is a member of the pit viper family

4. Whenever he eats the pit viper he gets this little venom rush.

5. This particular pit viper Antivenin is made from the blood of sheep and is used to treat the bites of the following types of pit viper: the Western Diamondback, Eastern Diamondback, and Mojave

6. Northern Copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix is a venomous pit viper found in Eastern North America

7. Copperhead definition is - a common pit viper (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central U.S

8. Pit viper Antivenin injection is used to treat the bites of certain poisonous snakes called pit vipers (crotalids), which are native to North America

9. Agkistrodon contortrix, or Copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America; Austrelaps, or Australian Copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania; Coelognathus radiata, or the Copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous species found in southern Asia; Deinagkistrodon acutus, or the Chinese Copperhead, a venomous pit viper …

10. The Bushmaster (Lachesis muta) is a large venomous pit viper species found in southern Central America and the northern half of South America including the island of Trinidad

11. An Amphisbaena (pronounced: / æ m f ɪ s ˈ b eɪ n ɑː / æm-fis-BAY-na listen) resembled a pit viper with, instead of one head, two of them at each end of its body.