'Copperhead' definitions:
Definition of 'copperhead'
(from WordNet)
noun
Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States [syn: copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix]
noun
Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn: copperhead, Denisonia superba]
Definition of 'Copperhead'
From: GCIDE
- Copperhead \Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.]
- 1. (Zool.) A poisonous American serpent ({Ancistrodon conotortrix}), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and {red viper}. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]