sand viper

Questions about sand viper

What does sand viper mean?

sand viper means "highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sand viper?

Close synonyms include horned viper, cerastes, horned asp, Cerastes cornutus, hognose snake. 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 sand viper a common word?

sand viper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.