adder
IPA: ˈædɝ
noun
- (obsolete) Any snake.
- A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- A common European adder (Vipera berus).
- A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
- A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
- A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
- Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- Something which adds or increases.
- (informal) A person who has attention deficit disorder.
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Examples of "adder" in Sentences
- Ok.. my tag adder is updated for the restyled BlogThis!
- (Then tell LiveJournal that their link adder is borked.)
- The word adder occurs five times in the text of the Authorized
- I just added support for Blog This! in my tag adder user script.
- The puff adder is a short, thick viper that is responsible for more bites than any other serpent in Africa.
- As I brought it into the light, I saw that it was a black variety of the puff adder, which is among the most poisonous serpents of Africa.
- Add-er-all makes you a human calculator; "addict" is in there, also "adder" -- you become a regular viper . . . anyway, it sounds like bipolar people's description of mania.
- One of them played with a litter of young hares; another ran a race with some young crows, which had hopped from their nest before they were really ready; a third caught up an adder from the ground and wound it around his neck and arm.
- So soon therefore as they saw my face they ran again into the mouth of their dam, whom I killed, and then found each of them shrouded in a distinct cell or pannicle in her belly, much like unto a soft white jelly, which maketh me to be of the opinion that our adder is the viper indeed.
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