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COPPERHEAD

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Dictionary entry overview: What does copperhead mean?

• COPPERHEAD (noun)
The noun COPPERHEAD has 2 senses:

1. common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
2. venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia

Familiarity information: COPPERHEAD used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COPPERHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead

Hypernyms ("copperhead" is a kind of...):

pit viper (New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head)

Holonyms ("copperhead" is a member of...):

Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon (copperheads)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Denisonia superba; copperhead

Hypernyms ("copperhead" is a kind of...):

elapid; elapid snake (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)

Holonyms ("copperhead" is a member of...):

Denisonia; genus Denisonia (copperheads)

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