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Definition of Massasaugas
1. massasauga [n] - See also: massasauga
Literary usage of Massasaugas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1900)
"Last summer several massasaugas were killed in Greenville, ... Some time since,
I put a sparrow into the cage containing two of my largest massasaugas. ..."
2. Report (1905)
"massasaugas. Body small to medium stout; dorsal scales in 21 -25, (27) rows,
mostly keeled, with apical pits; top of head covered with large plates which ..."
3. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (1904)
"... (massasaugas) and several other Indian nations, with whom, in ancient times,
they were in constant intercourse. The fact that this division of the ..."
4. A New Home by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1850)
"... but ' 't is not half so shocking in French;'—not to mention that at all, there
are other ' lions in the way;' massasaugas for instance, and Indians, ..."
5. Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan: A Study of the Settlement of the by George Newman Fuller (1916)
"Thinking to lighten our load we all got off and waded through, and happily escaped
the venomous fangs of the massasaugas with which the swamps were then so ..."
6. A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (1917)
"Many rattlesnakes (" massasaugas " Mr. Button called them), inhabited the moist
spots and father and I killed several as we cleared the ground. ..."
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