sistrurus miliaris

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   small pygmy rattlesnake

   Synonymsground rattlermassasauga

   Broaderrattlesnake

Questions about sistrurus miliaris

What does sistrurus miliaris mean?

sistrurus miliaris means "small pygmy rattlesnake".

What is another word for sistrurus miliaris?

Close synonyms include ground rattler, massasauga. 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 sistrurus miliaris a common word?

sistrurus miliaris 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.