puff adder
English Thesaurus
1. harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | colubrid, colubrid snake, |
definition | : | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | genus heterodon, heterodon, |
definition | : | a genus of small colubrid snakes containing the North American hognose snakes (noun.animal) |
2. large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | viper, |
definition | : | venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | bitis, genus bitis, |
definition | : | a genus of Viperidae (noun.animal) |
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