agkistrodon contortrix

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   common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States

   Synonymscopperhead

   Broaderpit viper

   Part ofAgkistrodon

Questions about agkistrodon contortrix

What does agkistrodon contortrix mean?

agkistrodon contortrix means "common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States".

What is another word for agkistrodon contortrix?

Close synonyms include copperhead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agkistrodon contortrix a common word?

agkistrodon contortrix is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.