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铜斑蛇,南北战争时同情南方的北方人

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Copperhead \Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.) A poisonous American serpent ({Ancistrodon
      conotortrix}), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but
      without rattles; -- called also {copper-belly}, and {red
      viper}.

   2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who
      sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]

资料来源 : WordNet®

copperhead
     n 1: common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United
          States [syn: {Agkistrodon contortrix}]
     2: venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn:
         {Denisonia superba}]