tiger rattlesnake

1. 1.

   having irregularly cross-banded back; of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico

   SynonymsCrotalus tigris

   Broaderrattlesnake

   Part ofCrotalus

Questions about tiger rattlesnake

What does tiger rattlesnake mean?

tiger rattlesnake means "having irregularly cross-banded back; of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico".

What is another word for tiger rattlesnake?

Close synonyms include Crotalus tigris. 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 tiger rattlesnake a common word?

tiger 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.