puff adder

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,
  2. Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,; especially, a common puffadder (Bitis arietans), found in Southern Africa.
    — In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.

词形变化

puff adders plural puffadder alternative puff-adder alternative

词汇关系

近义词
African adder
衍生词
forest puff adder

词源

Borrowed from Afrikaans or South African Dutch pofadder.
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