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Webster 1828 Edition

Rattlesnake

RAT'TLESNAKE

Noun.

A snake that has rattles at the tail, of the genus Crotalus. The rattles consist of articulated horny cells, which the animal vibrates in such a manner as to make a rattling sound. The poison of the rattlesnake is deadly.

Definition 2024

rattlesnake

See also: rattle snake

English

Alternative forms

rattle snake

Noun

A rattlesnake

rattlesnake ‎(plural rattlesnakes)

Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

Synonyms

rattler (colloquial, especially US)

Translations

poisonous snake

Basque: kriskitin-suge
Chinese:
Mandarin: 響尾蛇 (zh), 响尾蛇 (zh) ‎(xiǎngwěishé)
Czech: chřestýš m
Danish: klapperslange (da)
Dutch: ratelslang (nl) f
Esperanto: krotalo, sonserpento
Finnish: kalkkarokäärme
French: crotale (fr) m, serpent à sonnettes m
German: Klapperschlange (de) f
Greek: κροταλίας (el) m ‎(krotalías)
Hungarian: csörgőkígyó (hu)
Ido: krotalo (io)
Irish: nathair shligreach f, péist ghliogair f
Italian: crotalo m, serpente a sonagli m
Japanese: ガラガラ蛇 ‎(garagarahebi), ガラガラヘビ ‎(garagarahebi)
Latvian: klaburčūska f

Lithuanian: barškuolė (lt) f
Macedonian: ѕвечарка f ‎(dzvéčarka)
Navajo: tłʼiish áníní, naʼashǫ́ʼii ánínígíí
Polish: grzechotnik (pl) m
Portuguese: cascavel (pt) f
Romanian: șarpe cu clopoței (ro)
Russian: грему́чая змея́ (ru) f ‎(gremúčaja zmejá)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: звечарка f

Roman: zvečarka (sh) f, čegrtuša (sh) f
Slovak: štrkáč m
Slovene: klopotača (sl) f
Spanish: serpiente de cascabel f, cascabel (es) f
Swedish: skallerorm (sv) c
Taos: pę̀cu’úna
Turkish: çıngıraklı yılan (tr)
Volapük: noidülasnek (vo), krotasnek (vo)

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Webster 1828 Edition

Rattlesnake

RAT'TLESNAKE

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rattlesnake

rattlesnake

English

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Noun

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