puffadder

Definitions

1. Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,
2. especially, a common puffadder (Bitis arietans), found in Southern Africa.

Equivalents

Examples

“In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know⟳ which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite⟳ is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.”

CEFR level