copperhead : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: copperhead	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for copperhead
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
copperhead n common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States Synonym(s): copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia Synonym(s): copperhead, Denisonia superba
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Copperhead \Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A poisonous American serpent ({Ancistrodon conotortrix}), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also {copper-belly}, and {red viper}. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]