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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

cottonmouth see water moccasin .

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Moccasins, make that cottonmouths, plentiful in places but absent in most.
; ...something else. Most commonly, the label of water moccasin is interchangeable with that of cottonmouth...to and including western Kentucky. Water moccasin is rather a colloquial term for the...a few people routinely use the term water moccasin knowingly to refer to non-venomous... Read more
Knowing Their Snakes
; ...that the animal was a black snake or water moccasin that sought shelter in the box because of recent flooding. Black snake? Maybe. Water moccasin? No way. Those knowledgeable about...the callers. "It couldn't have been a water moccasin," said Lyndall Dickinson, of the Brookside... Read more
WORKERS WATCH FOR WHAT BITES ON SWAMPY STRIP NEAR COLUMBIA, A PILE-DRIVING CREW HAS BEEN GETTING A FIELD STUDY IN SLITHERING CRITTERS.(LOCAL)
; ...COLUMBIA - Nothing like a feisty water moccasin to slow down construction of a modern...for snakes, including the poisonous water moccasin. The road-building crew spotted seven...Raleigh. Three are poisonous - the water moccasin (also known as the cottonmouth), the... Read more
ASK THE GLOBE
; Q. What's the difference between a water moccasin and a cottonmouth? D.C., Arlington A. It's the same poisonous...several harmless water snakes have broad heads like the water moccasin, only the moccasin has a hollow, or pit, in the side of... Read more
Venomous locals.(memberforum)(Letter to the Editor)
; ...forgot to note the extremely high concentration of poisonous Water Moccasin snakes on this and many of the adjacent islands. Living...Florida west coast islands and keys. I have been told that the water moccasin density can be as high as one animal per two square meters... Read more
`Moccasin' Sets Laurel Turf Mark
; Water Moccasin broke the turf course record for 1 1/16 miles at Laurel Race Course...accounting for a lot of unusually fast times at the track. The victory by Water Moccasin ($12.40) was his first in more than two years. He was ridden by Donald... Read more
SNAKE RATTLE AND.. COL!(Sport)
; A SNAKE EXPERT WRITES The water moccasin is a large member of the pit viper sub-family which lives...looked like wrecking Monty's amazing day. The poisonous water moccasin came out of a lake and slithered alongside the 18th green... Read more
AUGUSTA DIARY
; ...Davis Love III was allowed a free drop from the coils of a water moccasin in the BellSouth event just up the road in Atlanta last...very, very thick one.'' The last recorded snake, also a water moccasin, at Augusta was in 1974 when England's Maurice Bembridge... Read more
Venom response bureau keeps busy.
; ...was a bigger threat than an angry water moccasin. Seifert's voice had about had it...Palm Beach and Plantation and a water moccasin bite in Miramar. The latest was the capture of a water moccasin near a Pembroke Pines day care center... Read more
Cobra bites Palm Beach County snake keeper during feeding.
; ...said. Most commonly, the Miami-Dade unit uses antivenin for water moccasin and pygmy rattler bites, Seifert said. The unit, which is...a call in the Miramar area when a woman was bitten by a water moccasin as she was gardening, Seifert said. She did not require... Read more

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cottonmouth
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cottonmouth
cot·ton·mouth / ˈkätnˌmou[unvoicedth] / • n. a large, dangerous semiaquatic pit viper ( Agkistrodon piscivorus ) that inhabits lowland swamps and waterways of the southeastern U.S. When threatening, it opens its mouth wide to display the white interior. Also called Read more
water moccasin
or cottonmouth Either of two species of pit viper that inhabits marshy lowlands of...and Mexico. The U.S. species (Agkistrodon piscivorus ) is called a cottonmouth because it threatens with the mouth open, showing the white interior... Read more
water moccasin
water moccasin or cottonmouth, highly venomous snake , Ancistrodon piscivorus, of the swamps...and shows the white interior of its mouth—hence the name cottonmouth. It eats both warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals. It is aggressive... Read more
water moccasin
water moccasin (cottonmouth) Venomous semi-aquatic snake of se USA. It is a pit viper , closely related to the copperhead . When threatened, it vibrates its tail and holds its white mouth open. Length: to 1.2m (4ft). Family Viperidae; species Agkistrodon piscivorus. Read more

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