noun
New World vipers: pit vipers
• Syn: ↑family Crotalidae
• Hypernyms: ↑reptile family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Serpentes, ↑suborder Serpentes, ↑Ophidia, ↑suborder Ophidia
• Member Meronyms:
↑pit viper, ↑Agkistrodon, ↑genus Agkistrodon, ↑Ancistrodon, ↑genus Ancistrodon, ↑rattlesnake, ↑rattler, ↑Crotalus, ↑genus Crotalus, ↑Sistrurus, ↑genus Sistrurus, ↑Bothrops, ↑genus Bothrops
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\\krōˈtaləˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a family of venomous snakes sometimes regarded as a viperid subfamily (Crotalinae) comprising the pit vipers
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Crotalidae /-talˈi-dē/ plural noun
The rattlesnake family
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Main Entry: ↑crotal
Useful english dictionary. 2012.