2 definitions found
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 1.6 [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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