Adder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that adds, especially a computational device that performs arithmetic addition.
  • n. See viper.
  • n. Any of several nonvenomous snakes, such as the milk snake of North America, popularly believed to be harmful.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A snake.
  • n. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
  • n. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus Oecobius.
  • n. Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
  • n. The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.
  • n. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition.
  • n. Something which adds or increases.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
  • n. A serpent.
  • n.
  • n. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus or Pelias berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
  • n. In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
  • n. Same as Sea Adder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The popular English name of the viper, Vipera communis, now Pelias berus, a common venomous serpent of Europe (and the only poisonous British reptile), belonging to the family Viperidæ, of the suborder Solenoglypha, of the order Ophidia.
  • n. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper, Pelias berus: as
  • n. The sea-stickleback or adder-fish. See adder-fish.
  • n. One who adds.
  • n. An instrument for performing addition.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a machine that adds numbers
  • n. a person who adds numbers
  • n. small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
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    sea adder   
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    serpent   
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    bladder    ladder    madar    madder    sadder   
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    viper    scorpion    toad    cobra    serpent    rattlesnake    reptile    basilisk    python    centipede