rattlesnake

IPA: rˈætʌɫsneɪk

Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

Examples of "rattlesnake" in Sentences

Our opinion of the rattlesnake is very close to the Egyptian opinion of the cat.
The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is threatened over much of its range, and if one turned up in my back yard, I'd relocate it.
Abstract: A distinctive new species of rattlesnake is described from the western versant of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico.
Florida Conservation writes that the pygmy rattlesnake is common throughout all of Florida, and that its rattle "is small and slender and produces a sound like the buzzing of an insect."
Gil probably should have thought about that and realized that a street address with the word rattlesnake in it was most likely a bad omen—that things probably wouldn’t turn out well if they tried living there.
Tea Party activists view the flag as a historic symbol of American defiance, but critics say the familiar flag with the image of a coiled rattlesnake is now associated with the controversial political movement.
Among others, there is a sort of snake, which we call rattlesnake, from a certain object which it has back upon its tail, two or three fingers 'breadth long, and has ten or twelve joints, and with this it makes a noise like the crickets.