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cottonmouth

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cot·ton·mouth  (ktn-mouth)
n.
See water moccasin.
[From the white interior of its mouth.]
cottonmouth [ˈkɒtənˌmaʊθ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for the water moccasin
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Noun1.cottonmouthcottonmouth - venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States
Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin
pit viper - New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head
Agkistrodon, Ancistrodon, genus Agkistrodon, genus Ancistrodon - copperheads


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But Mullet Fingers sabotages their efforts: he removes survey stakes; puts alligators in the portable toilets; and releases a mess of cottonmouth snakes to scare away the guard dogs.
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In the boxes the men heard the water rise in the trench and looked out for cottonmouths.
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They're the Delta's answer to California's redwoods, patriarch trees rising above the swirling splash of primitive alligator gar, the lightning strike of a surly cottonmouth or the pterodactyl-like flight of a great blue heron here in the mosquito-infested silence of damp dark earth.
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