spitting snake
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As though alarmed by a spitting snake, Collingwood flinches suddenly as he evades a very nasty Johnson bouncer.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2010
Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Closely allied is N. haje, the common hooded cobra of all Africa, the Spy-slange, i.e. spitting snake of the Boers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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