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n. Any of various venomous New World snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having at the end of the tail a series of loosely attached, horny segments that can be vibrated to produce a rattling or buzzing sound.

n. Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

n. Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus; sometimes also called rattler. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamondback rattlesnake (also called diamondback rattler, and diamondback) of the South and East (Crotalus adamanteus) and West (Crotalus atrox), are the best known. See Illust. of fang.

n. A venomous serpent of the family Crotalidæ, whose tail ends in a rattle or crepitaculum; a crotaliform or solenogly phic serpent, or pit-viper, of either of the genera Crotalus and Crotalophorus.

n. pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken

"Among others, there is a sort of snake, which we call rattlesnake, from a certain object which it has back upon its tail, two or three fingers 'breadth long, and has ten or twelve joints, and with this it makes a noise like the crickets."

pit viper   

pacific-rattlesnake    white rattlesnake    red-diamond rattlesnake    tiger rattlesnake   

rattler    diamondback rattler    diamond-back    fang   

western diamondback    timber rattlesnake    speckled rattlesnake    prairie rattler    sidewinder    diamond-back    rock rattlesnake    prairie rattlesnake    crotalus lepidus    crotalus atrox   

rattler   

viper    rattler    cobra    alligator    raccoon    python    snake    scorpion    cougar    cockroach