GENUS AGKISTRODON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Agkistrodon mean? 

• GENUS AGKISTRODON (noun)
  The noun GENUS AGKISTRODON has 1 sense:

1. copperheads

  Familiarity information: GENUS AGKISTRODON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AGKISTRODON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Copperheads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Agkistrodon; Ancistrodon; genus Agkistrodon; genus Ancistrodon

Hypernyms ("genus Agkistrodon" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Agkistrodon"):

Agkistrodon contortrix; copperhead (common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States)

Agkistrodon piscivorus; cottonmouth; cottonmouth moccasin; water moccasin (venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States)

Holonyms ("genus Agkistrodon" is a member of...):

Crotalidae; family Crotalidae (New World vipers: pit vipers)