Hypertext Webster Gateway: "copperhead"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Copperhead \Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A poisonous American serpent ({Ancistrodon
conotortrix}), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but
without rattles; -- called also {copper-belly}, and {red
viper}.
2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who
sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
copperhead
n 1: common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United
States [syn: {Agkistrodon contortrix}]
2: venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn:
{Denisonia superba}]
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