Word.ws English Dictionary

copperheads

copperheads is the plural of copperhead.

Meaning of copperhead

Noun

copperhead (plural copperheads)

  1. A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
  2. A water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
  3. A Chinese copperhead (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
  4. Any Australian copperhead (Austrelaps spp.), a venomous elapid found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
  5. A copperhead rat snake (Coelognathus radiatus, syn. Elaphe radiata), a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia.
  6. (derogatory) Someone with ginger hair.

See all 8 meanings of copperhead

Noun capitalized: Copperheads

Copperheads

  1. (plural) plural of Copperhead

Questions about copperheads

What is copperheads the plural of?
Copperheads is the plural of copperhead.
What part of speech is copperheads?
Copperheads is a noun.

Words near copperheads in the dictionary

  1. Copperfield
  2. Copperfieldian
  3. Copperhannia
  4. copperhead
  5. Copperheadism
  6. copperheads
  7. copperiness
  8. coppering
  9. copperings
  10. copperish
  11. copperishness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: copperheads (page history and authors); Copperheads (page history and authors); copperhead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-copperheads.wav.

Cite this entry: “copperheads.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/copperheads. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.