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- noun Alternative form of
pit viper .
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Examples
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Reminds me a little of how tearful pitviper Rick Santorum became when he was losing.
New, Rebooted McCain: We're Losing Right Now, But Just You Wait 2009
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A new species of arboreal pitviper from the Atlantic versant of northern Central America.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Inciting Revolution in Honduras? Real News 2009
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Triceratolepidophis sieversorum, a new genus and species of pitviper (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Vietnam.
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And he had learned to hate it, even as a dog hates the vague "crushed cucumber" smell of a pitviper.
Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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Atropoides nummifer mexicanus is a venomous pitviper subspecies [3] found in
WN.com - Articles related to Mexico sees sense in war on drugs 2010
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Bothriechis bicolor is a venomous pitviper species found in southern Mexico and Guatemala.
WN.com - Articles related to Mexico sees sense in war on drugs 2010
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A tiger-striped pitviper was discovered accidentally by a mother and son research team, when the mother was resting her hand on a rock and her noticed the snake inches away.
Green Options 2009
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Such is the immense biodiversity of this region that some discoveries such as the tiger-striped pitviper were made by accident.
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"We were engrossed in trying to catch a new species of gecko when my son pointed out that my hand was on a rock mere inches away from the head of a pitviper!
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