cotton-mouth

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The cotton-mouth moccasin is semi-aquatic, being found around the edges of streams and other bodies of water.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)

What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin?

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway

A cotton-mouth water snake, short, thick as a man's arm and indescribably loathsome, wriggled on top of the mud as Roger prepared to leap.

From The Plunderer by Oyen, Henry

Then, quite unexpectedly—oh! what a start it gave her!—the solitary white object burst upon her view, leprous and ghastly as the yawn of a cotton-mouth.

From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio

A wound by the cotton-mouth moccasin, if treated properly, may not result in death.

From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch