diamondback rattlesnake

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noun

either of two large, highly venomous rattlesnakes of the genus Crotalus, having diamond-shaped markings on the back.

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Compare eastern diamondback rattlesnake, western diamondback rattlesnake.

Origin of diamondback rattlesnake

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby diamondback rattlesnake

diammonium phosphate, diamond, diamond anniversary, diamondback, diamondback moth, diamondback rattlesnake, diamondback terrapin, Diamond Bar, diamond bird, diamond drill, diamond dust

How to use diamondback rattlesnake in a sentence

In May 2012, Mark Wolford, a third-generation snake handler, also died after being bitten by a rattlesnake.
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You can even purchase a “Canned Exotic Meat Gift Set,” which includes rattlesnake, alligator, elk, and buffalo.
Camel in a Can and 6 More Weird Canned Meats||January 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In other words, a bunch of guys grabbing their guns and waving a flag emblazoned with a rattlesnake is not a militia.
Gun-Rights Advocates Should Fear History of Second Amendment|Saul Cornell|December 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
If you don't take vitamins on a regular basis it's like going to bed with a rattlesnake,” he declared, “it's going to get you.
Jack LaLanne's 10 Health Habits|The Daily Beast|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Unlike European vamps, Skinner is powered by the sun and, true to his native environment, has rattlesnake fangs.
Stephen King's First Comic Book|Shannon Donnelly|October 25, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Quite a shower of shell fell all about us, the Turks having spotted there was some sort of "bloke" on the Rattlesnake.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Most of us showed signs, I will not say of being rattled, but of having stumbled against a rattlesnake.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O|Clair Blank
Several times she had startled antelope, and once her horse had shied at a rattlesnake coiled in the sunshine.
Mystery Ranch|Arthur Chapman
We both knowed well enough it was some more work of the rattlesnake-skin; so what was the use to talk about it?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)