Meaning of deaf adder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slowworm.
   British
2. A death adder.
   Australia

Examples

“Our deaf adder resembles, in its short, puffy, repulsive appearance, the blow-adder of America.”

“The death, or deaf adder, is an ugly creature, and is considered highly dangerous.”

“The Death Adder is extremely sluggish in its habits, and rarely moves out of the way of persons approaching it; I am therefore inclined to think, that the original popular name assigned to this reptile, must have been Deaf Adder, instead of the Death Adder.”

“Another friend on a cruise, put his saddle down for a pillow at night as usual, and on lifting up the saddle-flaps the next morning, he observed a beastly deaf adder lying flat down.”

“Snakes of various sizes, from two to ten feet in length, including, perhaps, the venomous deaf adder”

“The deaf adder is the most formidable “varmint” in Australia. There are two varieties; it is generally about two feet long. The bite is fatal. The deaf adder never moves unless it is touched, hence its name.”

“One day at Charlotte Waters, during my second visit, they brought in a specimen of what was evidently either the “deaf-adder” (Acanthophis antarctica) or another species of the same genus.”

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