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copperhead (iou)



copperhead noun. L18.
[from COPPER noun1 & adjective + HEAD noun.]
More fully copperhead snake:
a. A venomous but rarely fatal N. American pit viper, Agkistrodon contortrix. L18.
b. A venomous but unaggressive Australian snake, Denisonia superba, of the cobra family, Elapidae. L19.
Hist. In the American Civil War, a Northerner who sympathized with the South. M19.
An American Indian. US. Now rare or obsolete. M19.