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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