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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats