Crossword-Solution: HOPLOCEPHALUS
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
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Sentences with HOPLOCEPHALUS (4)
Name given to a small venomous species of whip-snake, Hoplocephalus coronoides, Gunth., found in Tasmania and Victoria, and reaching a length of about eighteen inches.
The peculiar, and as yet unexplained, tendency of snake-poison to act with special virulence on some centres, passing others by comparatively little disturbed, is markedly shown by the cobra poison of India as compared with that of our Australian cobra (_hoplocephalus curtus._) The unfortunate victims of the former are tortured by an ever-increasing dyspnoca, and finally die from asphyxia, under what are supposed to be carbonic acid convulsions.
Here we hardly ever see actual dyspnoca after the bite of hoplocephalus or any other Australian snake.
The nearest approach to regularity and orderly sequence of the symptoms, as described in the foregoing pages, we find in Australia after the bite of the tiger snake (_Hoplocephalus curtus_) and the brown snake (_Diemenia superciliosa_), more especially that of Queensland.