horned rattlesnake

1. 1.

   small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve

   SynonymssidewinderCrotalus cerastes

   Broaderrattlesnake

   Part ofCrotalus

Questions about horned rattlesnake

What does horned rattlesnake mean?

horned rattlesnake means "small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve".

What is another word for horned rattlesnake?

Close synonyms include sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes. 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 horned rattlesnake a common word?

horned rattlesnake 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.