copperhead

Meanings

Plural: copperheads

Noun

• common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
• venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
• Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
• A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
• Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
• A water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
• Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
• A Chinese copperhead (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
• Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
• Any Australian copperhead (Austrelaps spp.), a venomous elapid found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
• Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
• A copperhead rat snake (Coelognathus radiatus, syn. Elaphe radiata), a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia.
• Someone with ginger hair.

Synonyms

Agkistrodon contortrix, Denisonia superba