cotton-mouth
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The cotton-mouth moccasin is semi-aquatic, being found around the edges of streams and other bodies of water.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
Next to these a large sized cotton-mouth moccasin is perhaps most to be dreaded, to be followed, depending upon their size, by the other varieties of rattlesnakes, the copperheads, and finally the ground-rattler.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
A cotton-mouth water snake, short, thick as a man's arm and indescribably loathsome, wriggled on top of the mud as Roger prepared to leap.
From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen
But weuns have medicine tuh take when cotton-mouth or moccasin hit in leg with fangs.
From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by St. George Rathborne
What's the color of the rainbow-snake and of the cotton-mouth moccasin?
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
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