rattlesnake
rattler | pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken |
Crotalus
genus Crotalus | large rattlesnakes, seldom bite unless startled or pursuing prey |
diamondback
diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus adamanteus | large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings |
timber rattlesnake
banded rattlesnake
Crotalus horridus horridus | widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States |
canebrake rattlesnake
canebrake rattler
Crotalus horridus atricaudatus | southern variety |
prairie rattlesnake
prairie rattler
Western rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis | widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
sidewinder
horned rattlesnake
Crotalus cerastes | small paleolored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States, body moves in an s-shaped curve |
Western diamondback
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox | largest and most dangerous North American snake, of southwestern United States and Mexico |
rock rattlesnake
Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
tiger rattlesnake
Crotalus tigris | having irregularly cross-banded back, of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico |
Mojave rattlesnake
Crotalus scutulatus | extremely dangerous, most common in areas of scattered scrubby growth, from Mojave Desert to western Texas and into Mexico |
speckled rattlesnake
Crotalus mitchellii | markings vary but usually harmonize with background, of southwestern Arizona and Baja California |
malice
maliciousness
spite
spitefulness
venom | feeling a need to see others suffer |
rattlesnake weed
Hieracium venosum | a hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves, Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky |
| rattlesnake root | a plant of the genus Nabalus |
| rattlesnake root Prenanthes purpurea | herb of central and southern Europe having purple florets |
rattlesnake plantain
helleborine | any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme |
| rattlesnake orchid | any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail |
rattlesnake master
rattlesnake's master
button snakeroot Eryngium yuccifolium | coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite |
rattlesnake fern
Botrychium virginianum | American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle |
| venom | toxin secreted by animals, secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions) |
| kokoi venom | a potent neurotoxin found in a particular frog |
| snake venom | venom secreted by certain snakes |