cottonmouths
- plural of cottonmouth.
Example Sentences
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They can even handle the bite from venomous snakes such as cottonmouths, timber rattlesnakes and copperheads.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
The world hosts hundreds of wildly different venomous snake species, from brightly banded coral snakes to camouflaged cottonmouths.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 26, 2021
If cottonmouths swam through our lakes and rivers, what else might be hiding there?
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2020
Rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes—bites from all will be painful at least, deadly at most.
From Golf Digest ● May 3, 2018
“And besides, what is useless about defending our raft against the cottonmouths? And finding Ragginold! And saving my monocle from the raging mob!”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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