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boomslang

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boomslang [ˈbuːmˌslæŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
[from Afrikaans, from boom tree + slang snake]


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A good thing, too, since every creature we meet in these slithery pages is some sort of snake, be it a bushmaster in South America, a spectacled cobra in Southeast Asia, a tiger rattlesnake in Australia or a boomslang in Africa.
Detectives initially thought they were for a medical condition But speculation grew that Garrick was injecting himself with venom to build up an immunity against snake bites after being bitten by a Boomslang snake in South Africa 13 months earlier.
 
 
 
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