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

The report cites an account that the name was inspired by an imprint shaped like a woman’s moccasin in a granite rock pointing toward the valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

At the next stop, a small man in moccasin slippers and no shirt got on.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2021

“It’s a water moccasin, isn’t it?” she said.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech