viperine
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of viperine
From the Latin word vīperīnus, dating back to 1540–50. See viper, -ine 1
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Like other viperine bites, however, it so affects the surrounding flesh that blood poisoning may follow days after the first crisis has been passed.
From Wings of the Wind by Credo Fitch Harris
This leads the writer on to the discussion of this singular hæmorrhagic process principally characteristic of viperine poisoning, and only very exceptionally produced by the poison of colubrines.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by A. Mueller
But he, “fearing the scoldings of his too tongue-banging wife more than God’s justice, and being, moreover, spell-bound by her viperine hissings,” affected utter innocence.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
Here, among a number of viperine snakes of about the same size, is a snake that lives on eggs.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
By far the most numerous are three genera of viperine snakes, including the rattlesnakes and moccasins; all of these have a pit-like depression between the nose and eyes, and hence are called pit-vipers.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
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