Crossword-Solution: CROTALUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crotalus | n. | A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes. |
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| AMERICAN snake | 10 answers |
| SNAKE, type of | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CROTALUS (5)
The first genus is the Crotalus, or rattlesnake proper; the second is the Caudisona, or ground-rattlesnake; the third is the Ancistrodon, or moccasin, one of the species of which is a water-snake; and the fourth is the Elaps, or harlequin snake.
This time, however, a lesson had been learnt, and the toad was seized by one leg, withdrawn, and then swallowed in triumph.” The keeper in the Zoological Gardens is positive that certain snakes, for instance Crotalus and Python, distinguish him from all other persons.
Still higher and farther west lay the accursed ledge,--shunned by all, unless it were now and then a daring youth, or a wandering naturalist who ventured to its edge in the hope of securing some infantile Crotalus durissus, who had not yet cut his poison teeth.
Nature was before man with her anaesthetics: the cat's first shake stupefies the mouse; the lion's first shake deadens the man's fear and feeling; and the crotalus paralyzes before he strikes.
Bernard considered it necessary to get a live crotalus or two into his possession, if this were possible.