Definition of Pit viper

1. Noun. New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head.


Definition of Pit viper

1. Noun. Any of various venomous snakes, of the family ''Crotalinae'', found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pit Viper

pit and fissure sealants
pit bull
pit bull terrier
pit bulls
pit lane
pit lanes
pit of atlas for dens
pit of head of femur
pit of stomach
pit of the stomach
pit out
pit prop
pit run
pit stop
pit viper
pit vipers
pita
pita bread
pitahaya
pitahaya cactus
pitahayas
pitanga
pitapat
pitapats
pitapatted
pitapatting
pitara
pitarah
pitarahs

Literary usage of Pit viper

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... is a central Asiatic pit viper. The few reptiles inhabiting the northern part of Japan are probably of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... is a central Asiatic pit viper. The few reptiles inhabiting the northern part of Japan ore probably of palaearctic origin. ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"... 3, side view head of pit viper; 4, side view head of harmless snake; 5. dorsal view pit viper; 6, dorsal view of harmless snake; 7 and 9, bite puncture ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Flint and bone implements and rude pottery have been found in them. PIT-VIPER, a venomous viperine snake of the family ..."

5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1901)
"Do you suppose there is any connection between the t\\o? MARS-KIN S. HAMLI.N. The term " pit-viper'' is appropriately up- lied to rattlesnakes and their ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... is a central Asiatic pit viper. The few reptiles inhabiting the northern part of Japan are probably of ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... is a central Asiatic pit viper. The few reptiles inhabiting the northern part of Japan ore probably of palaearctic origin. ..."

8. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"... 3, side view head of pit viper; 4, side view head of harmless snake; 5. dorsal view pit viper; 6, dorsal view of harmless snake; 7 and 9, bite puncture ..."

9. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Flint and bone implements and rude pottery have been found in them. PIT-VIPER, a venomous viperine snake of the family ..."

10. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1901)
"Do you suppose there is any connection between the t\\o? MARS-KIN S. HAMLI.N. The term " pit-viper'' is appropriately up- lied to rattlesnakes and their ..."

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