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rattlesnake

/rat-l-sneyk/US // ˈræt lˌsneɪk //UK // (ˈrætəlˌsneɪk) //

响尾蛇

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several New World pit vipers of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle composed of a series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail.

Examples

  • Rattlesnakes are dangerous, but most people in rattlesnake country don’t live their days in fear.

  • However, the animal welfare league said no signs were found of other rattlesnakes or of a nest.

  • This venom is deadlier than that of any other rattlesnake, yet also the simplest.

  • This suggests that at least half, and possibly even more, of the tiger rattlesnake’s venom-related genes don’t actually contribute to its venom.

  • Most rattlesnakes have at least 50 genes actively involved in making venoms that can include 50 to 100 different toxins, Margres says.

  • In May 2012, Mark Wolford, a third-generation snake handler, also died after being bitten by a rattlesnake.

  • You can even purchase a “Canned Exotic Meat Gift Set,” which includes rattlesnake, alligator, elk, and buffalo.

  • In other words, a bunch of guys grabbing their guns and waving a flag emblazoned with a rattlesnake is not a militia.

  • If you don't take vitamins on a regular basis it's like going to bed with a rattlesnake,” he declared, “it's going to get you.

  • Unlike European vamps, Skinner is powered by the sun and, true to his native environment, has rattlesnake fangs.

  • Quite a shower of shell fell all about us, the Turks having spotted there was some sort of "bloke" on the Rattlesnake.

  • Most of us showed signs, I will not say of being rattled, but of having stumbled against a rattlesnake.

  • Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.

  • Several times she had startled antelope, and once her horse had shied at a rattlesnake coiled in the sunshine.

  • We both knowed well enough it was some more work of the rattlesnake-skin; so what was the use to talk about it?