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Crotalidae

noun

New World vipers: pit vipers

• Syn: ↑family Crotalidae

• Hypernyms: ↑reptile family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Serpentes, ↑suborder Serpentes, ↑Ophidia, ↑suborder Ophidia

• Member Meronyms:

↑pit viper, ↑Agkistrodon, ↑genus Agkistrodon, ↑Ancistrodon, ↑genus Ancistrodon, ↑rattlesnake, ↑rattler, ↑Crotalus, ↑genus Crotalus, ↑Sistrurus, ↑genus Sistrurus, ↑Bothrops, ↑genus Bothrops

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\\krōˈtaləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Crotalus, type genus + -idae

: a family of venomous snakes sometimes regarded as a viperid subfamily (Crotalinae) comprising the pit vipers

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Crotalidae /-talˈi-dē/ plural noun

The rattlesnake family

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Main Entry: ↑crotal

Useful english dictionary. 2012.