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deaf-adder

deaf-adder is the alternative form of deaf adder.

Meaning of deaf adder

Noun

deaf adder (plural deaf adders)

  1. (UK) A slowworm.
  2. (Australia) A death adder.
    • Our deaf adder resembles, in its short, puffy, repulsive appearance, the blow-adder of America.1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, third edition, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, page 319

Forms of deaf-adder

pluraldeaf-adders

Questions about deaf-adder

What is deaf-adder the alternative form of?
Deaf-adder is the alternative form of deaf adder.

Words near deaf-adder in the dictionary

  1. deaf as a post
  2. deaf people
  3. deaf persons
  4. Deaf Smith County
  5. deaf waddler
  6. deaf-adder
  7. deaf-adders
  8. deaf-and-dumb alphabet
  9. deaf-blind
  10. deaf-blindness
  11. deaf-mute

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deaf-adder (page history and authors); deaf adder (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.

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