noun
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Any snake.
definition
A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
Examples of adder in a Sentence
Five rather common species are certainly deadly - the death adder, the brown, the black, the superb and the tiger snakes.
Snakes are common, an adder, a variegated rock snake and a Hadramut with forty followers about the 13th century.
This name is twice translated "adder," but as nothing is told of it beyond its poisonous character and the intractability of its disposition, it is impossible accurately to determine the species.
Of serpents there are only two poisonous kinds, the common viper and the adder (Kreuzotter).
The constructions include an adder, a sliding block memory, a memory cell and many more fascinating parts.
I have seen a few cases recently - The Adder is the only venomous snake found in Britain.
His hands were then bound, and he was cast into a den of venomous serpents; but he played so sweetly on the harp with his toes that he charmed the reptiles, except one adder, by which he was stung to death.
Then do we supply them with modules of 1 bit adders, so that they can connect them up to make a larger adder?
The Snake Period arose from the sight of a black adder sunning itself on a rocky outcrop.
Of note there was adder, as well as viviparous lizard and slow worm.
Various orchids were widespread, and Adder 's tongue fern was common on unploughed pasture.
Golden-Axe is that pure hack-n-slash game that has you playing one of three characters to save the King of Yuria before an evil being called Death Adder kills him and his daughter and destroys the Golden Axe.
You are most likely to come across a basking adder by accident while walking on a narrow heathland track.
Coming back down the path, near where the Daffodils bloom, we found a tiny dead adder, some eight inches long.
On my way to Raffi and Anthea I encountered the biggest puff adder ever and hissing away.
They only danger here is the snakes & the death adder that prowls about the bush forest.
The half adder can only handle carry outs not carry ins, so can only add 2 numbers together.
Over one hundred species of plant have been recorded here, including green winged orchid and adder's tongue fern.
Adder The current paucity and irregular distribution of the adder is not easy to understand.
It is also known as adder's foot, golden maidenhair and wood-fern, and is the oakfern of the old herbals.
It differs from the adder in having the head entirely covered with scales, shields being absent, and in having the snout somewhat turned up. The term "Asp" (á¼â‚¬ÃƒÀίÂ) seems to, have been employed by Greek and Roman writers, and by writers generally down to comparatively recent times, to designate more than one species of serpent; thus the asp, by means of which Cleopatra is said to have ended her life, and so avoided the disgrace of entering Rome a captive, is now generally supposed to have been the cerastes, or horned viper (Cerastes cornutus), of northern Africa and Arabia, a snake about 15 in.
Foxes, squirrels, otters, snakes (smooth snake, grass snake and adder), butterflies (some of them peculiar to the district), and an occasional badger range the forest freely.
In South Africa the harmless egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis scaber) is very like the Cape adder (Bitis atropos); and in Ceylon the harmless Colubrine Lycodon aulicus is alleged to mimic Bungarus ceylonicus, an ally of the deadly krait of India.
Of reptiles there are the crocodile, confined to the Transkei rivers, several kinds of snakes, including the cobra di capello and puff adder, numerous lizards and various tortoises, including the leopard tortoise, the largest of the continental land forms. Of birds the ostrich may still be found wild in some regions.
The adder is a member of the viper family and is the only venomous snake in northwest Europe.