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copperhead

[kop-er-hed] / ˈkɒp ərˌhɛd /
NOUN
viper
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Today you could send me out onto the course with a bag containing a pogo stick, a copperhead and a mackerel, and I wouldn’t notice.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

The North American copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix, a type of pit viper.

From National Geographic Jul. 25, 2023

“I knew better than to dig in a pile of leaves,” she says of her brush with the copperhead.

From Scientific American Sep. 18, 2022

“It happened a second time. I looked outside, and there was a copperhead sunning itself on the concrete pad. Ratcliff saved me from a nasty confrontation.”

From Washington Post Nov. 27, 2021

And once he turned out of his pocket a wadded-up baby copperhead that nearly threw Mama into spasms.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

According to Penn State, warm, humid nights after a period of rain are the best time to see copperheads.

From National Geographic Jul. 25, 2023

Today Pyle's group has more than 176,000 members eagerly exchanging information about the region's venomous rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths and coral snakes, as well as its nonvenomous rat snakes and water snakes, among other harmless species.

From Scientific American Sep. 18, 2022

Sometimes copperheads are so well hidden that even professionals have trouble locating them.

From Washington Post May 31, 2022

Officials did not say what type of snake was thought to have bitten the animal, but copperheads and rattlesnakes have been found on the Outer Banks, The Charlotte Observer reported.

From Washington Times May 26, 2020

The boy was glad it was winter because in summer there might have been dry-land moccasins and copperheads under the cabin.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong




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