Definition of Family Crotalidae

1. Noun. New World vipers: pit vipers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Crotalidae

family Cornaceae
family Cortinariaceae
family Corvidae
family Corydalidae
family Corylaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae
family Coryphaenidae
family Cotingidae
family Cottidae
family Cracidae
family Cracticidae
family Crangonidae
family Cricetidae
family Crocodylidae
family Crotalidae (current term)
family Cruciferae
family Cryptobranchidae
family Cryptocercidae
family Cryptogrammataceae
family Ctenizidae
family Cuculidae
family Cucurbitaceae
family Culicidae
family Cunoniaceae
family Cupressaceae
family Curculionidae
family Cuterebridae
family Cyatheaceae
family Cycadaceae

Literary usage of Family Crotalidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Dental Association at Its ... Annual Session by American Dental Association (1898)
"family Crotalidae. Crotalus adamanteus (Diamond Rattler), Southern United States. Order Crocodilia.—Family Alligatoridae. Alligator mississippiensis 1 ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and popularly called " cottonmouth," from the white rim around the mouth. It belongs to the family Crotalidae, species Ancistrodon (or ..."

3. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1903)
"... depression between the mouth and eye, belong to the pit vipers, family Crotalidae. The coral snakes belong to the family Elapidae. ..."

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