Associations to the word «Rattlesnake»

Wiktionary

RATTLESNAKE, noun. Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
RATTLESNAKE FERN, noun. Botrypus virginianus, a low-growing ternately branched herb in the Ophioglossales.
RATTLESNAKE MASTER, noun. Eryngium yuccifolium, a common herbaceous perennial plant native to the tallgrass prairies of North America.
RATTLESNAKE MASTER, noun. Manfreda virginica, a flowering plant related to agaves.

Dictionary definition

RATTLESNAKE, noun. Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken.

Wise words

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Ernest Hemingway