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

Elsewhere, Naylor’s sister slipped in the mud and down into a makeshift privy, ruining her prized moccasin boots.

From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2019

The look was L.A. vagabond, mismatched print kimonos, board shorts, sweater pants, Baja hoodies, patchwork bucket hats and fringed moccasin booties.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2015

There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen