Meaning of Copperhead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War.
   US, historical, slang
2. Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
3. A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
4. Any member of the Democratic party.
   US, derogatory, historical
5. A water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
6. A Chinese copperhead (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
7. Any Australian copperhead (Austrelaps spp.), a venomous elapid found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
8. A copperhead rat snake (Coelognathus radiatus, syn. Elaphe radiata), a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia.
9. Someone with ginger hair.
   derogatory

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