[
US
/ˈkɑtənˌmaʊθ/
]
[ UK /kˈɒtənmˌaʊθ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒtənmˌaʊθ/ ]
NOUN
- venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States
How To Use cottonmouth In A Sentence
- Any cottonmouth that came near me would wind up dead and I've brought home more than one fish with a bullet hole through it.
- This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads.
- Johnson notes that this snake could be misidentified as the Western cottonmouth, but knowing to look for that chainlike dark pattern on the back will help in identification. SeMissourian.com Headlines
- I've eaten rattlers, cottonmouths, copperheads - they all taste the same.
- We both recognized it as a moccasin, because the snake rule was simple: All snakes dropping into your boat at midnight in the river are cottonmouth moccasins, period.
- The cottonmouth can be confused with the water snake. Houston Chronicle
- In the boxes the men heard the water rise in the trench and looked out for cottonmouths.
- There are five species of poisonous snakes in the forest: the cottonmouth, coral snake, and three species of rattlers.
- We couldn't always fish - sometimes there were swarms of mosquitos or biting flies, and the pond was riddled with cottonmouths.
- The brothers search for mayhaw berries in swamps infested with poisonous cottonmouth snakes. Times, Sunday Times