moccasin
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A water moccasin may glide silently past, and a few times we’ve seen iridescent alligator eyes peering out at us before they sank back down into the depths.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023
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
At the next stop, a small man in moccasin slippers and no shirt got on.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2021
All I could think of was water moccasin.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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