adder


Definition: Meaning of, adder in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈadə /

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Singular Plural
adder adders
[countable]
  1. a type of poisonous snake
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adder used in phrases

  • adder's fern (noun)
    1. mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
  • adder's tongue (noun)
    1. ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
  • adder's tongue fern (noun)
    1. ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
  • banded adder (noun)
    1. sluggish krait banded with black and yellow
  • checkered adder (noun)
    1. nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes
  • death adder (noun)
    1. venomous Australian snake resembling an adder
  • green adder's mouth (noun)
    1. north American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals
  • milk adder (noun)
    1. nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes
  • puff adder (noun)
    1. large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed
    2. harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed
  • yellow adder's tongue (noun)
    1. eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors
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