Associations to the word «Cottonmouth»

Wiktionary

COTTONMOUTH, noun. (medicine) (uncountable) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
COTTONMOUTH, noun. A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
COTTONMOUTH, noun. A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.

Dictionary definition

COTTONMOUTH, noun. Venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States.

Wise words

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