CROTALIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Crotalidae mean? 

• CROTALIDAE (noun)
  The noun CROTALIDAE has 1 sense:

1. New World vipers: pit vipers

  Familiarity information: CROTALIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROTALIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New World vipers: pit vipers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Crotalidae; family Crotalidae

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

reptile family (a family of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Crotalidae"):

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

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

rattler; rattlesnake (pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken)

Crotalus; genus Crotalus (large rattlesnakes; seldom bite unless startled or pursuing prey)

genus Sistrurus; Sistrurus (pygmy rattlesnakes)

Bothrops; genus Bothrops (fer-de-lance)

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

Ophidia; Serpentes; suborder Ophidia; suborder Serpentes (snakes)