Puff adders

puff adder

1. A venomous African viper (Bitis arietans) having crescent-shaped yellowish markings.

[So called because it inflates its body when excited.]

puff adder

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large venomous African viper, Bitis arietans, that is yellowish-grey with brown markings and inflates its body when alarmed

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for hognose snake

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Noun	1.	puff adder - large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed Bitis arietans viper - venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw Bitis, genus Bitis - a genus of Viperidae
	2.	puff adder - harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed hognose snake, sand viper colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes genus Heterodon, Heterodon - a genus of small colubrid snakes containing the North American hognose snakes

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puff adder n → vipera del deserto

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adder
Bitis
Bitis arietans
colubrid
colubrid snake
genus Bitis
genus Heterodon
Heterodon
hog-nose snake
hognose snake
Hognosesnake
Plumed adder
puff
Puffing adder
reptile
River jack
sand viper
viper

They were stunned yesterday when he turned up at a branch in Johannesburg and carried out his crazy threat with five puff adders.

DON'T MOVE , THIS HISS A STICK-UP!; Customer lets deadly snakes loose ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

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