moccasin

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Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022

“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.

From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2022

She wore a dark jacket over a sky-blue, rainbow-trimmed ribbon skirt embroidered with imagery of butterflies, stars and corn; moccasin boots; a turquoise and silver belt and necklace; and dragonfly earrings.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

Elsewhere, Naylor’s sister slipped in the mud and down into a makeshift privy, ruining her prized moccasin boots.

From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2019

Bending over, croaking like a bullfrog that had been caught by a water moccasin, he started going around in a circle.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls