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Noun: copperhead  'kó-pu(r),hed
  1. Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
    - Agkistrodon contortrix
     
  2. Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
    - Denisonia superba

Derived forms: copperheads

Type of: elapid, elapid snake, pit viper

Part of: Agkistrodon, Ancistrodon, Denisonia, genus Agkistrodon, genus Ancistrodon, genus Denisonia

Encyclopedia: Copperhead, Ontario

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