moccasin
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Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2022
The report cites an account that the name was inspired by an imprint shaped like a woman’s moccasin in a granite rock pointing toward the valley.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022
At the next stop, a small man in moccasin slippers and no shirt got on.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2021
When the stick turned against the current to swim toward the bank, I saw it was a water moccasin and threw a cinder at it.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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