crotalus adamanteus

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   large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings

   Synonymsdiamondbackdiamondback rattlesnake

   Broaderrattlesnake

Questions about crotalus adamanteus

What does crotalus adamanteus mean?

crotalus adamanteus means "large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings".

What is another word for crotalus adamanteus?

Close synonyms include diamondback, diamondback rattlesnake. 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 crotalus adamanteus a common word?

crotalus adamanteus 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.