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adder

30 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) adder (noun)
  2. 2) adder (noun)
  3. adder stone (noun)
  4. adder's-fern (noun)
  5. adder's-flower (noun)
  6. adder's meat (noun)
  7. adder's mouth (noun)
  8. adder's-tongue (noun)
  9. berg adder (noun)
  10. blowing adder (noun)
  11. checkered adder (noun)
  12. deaf adder (noun)
  13. death adder (noun)
  14. flatheaded adder (noun)
  15. green adder's mouth (noun)
  16. hissing adder (noun)
  17. horned adder (noun)
  18. milk adder (noun)
  19. mountain adder (noun)
  20. night adder (noun)
  21. puff adder (noun)
  22. puffing adder (noun)
  23. sea adder (noun)
  24. spotted adder (noun)
  25. spreading adder (noun)
  26. water adder (noun)
  27. white adder's-mouth (noun)
  28. white adder's-tongue (noun)
  29. yellow adder's-tongue (noun)
  30. banded krait (noun)

1ad·der

noun \ˈa-dər\

Definition of ADDER

1
: the common venomous viper (Vipera berus) of Europe; broadly : any of various snakes of the viper family — compare puff adder
2
: any of several North American snakes (as the hognose snakes) that are harmless but are popularly believed to be venomous

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Origin of ADDER

Middle English, alteration (by false division of a naddre) of naddre, from Old English nǣdre; akin to Old High German nātara adder, Latin natrix water snake
First Known Use: 14th century

Rhymes with ADDER

bladder, ladder, madder

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