Agkistrodon contortrix

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Noun1.Agkistrodon contortrix - common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United StatesAgkistrodon contortrix - common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
pit viper - New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head
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A two-headed copperhead snake was found in resident garden yard in Virginia last week.
[USA] Sep 24(ANI): In a rare discovery, a venomous two-headed baby copperhead snake was found in the yard of a resident in Virginia.
A Virginia woman is recovering after a copperhead snake bit her several times when she was out to eat at LongHorn Steakhouse in Spotsylvania County with her 13-year-old son, her boyfriend, and family, earlier this month, according to reports. 
honeysuckle and musk of a copperhead snake. Not seraphs nor saints, but
I had a normal week until a copperhead snake was found in our front garden.
Soon Isabella has the chance to test this gift of power, when she uses her ability to fly to rescue Mullaby who is threatened by a copperhead snake on a mountain side.
Coiled inside the rear end was a copperhead snake! After chasing him out and making sure he was the only one in there, I checked the gears and discovered I had hit pay dirt.
Or the woman who found the copperhead snake in front of her house.
Instead, script becomes overly busy with the teenagers, as extreme incidents pile up--Rose taking a rifle shot at Kathleen; Rose letting Thaddius have sex with her, then hanging the bloodstained sheet outside to rile her father; a copperhead snake getting loose in the house; and Jack going on a bulldozing rampage against a local housing developer (Beau Bridges), hardly mature behavior on the part of a man one is encouraged to consider so principled.
A COPPERHEAD SNAKE BIT TINA FIELD TWICE ON HER RIGHT FOOT.
I was confused until I saw a 16-to-18-inch copperhead snake slithering away in the leaves.