copperhead

English Thesaurus

1. venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	elapid, elapid snake,
definition	:	any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	denisonia, genus denisonia,
definition	:	copperheads (noun.animal)

2. common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	pit viper,
definition	:	New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	agkistrodon, ancistrodon, genus agkistrodon, genus ancistrodon,
definition	:	copperheads (noun.animal)