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deaf adders

deaf adders is the plural 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

Questions about deaf adders

What is deaf adders the plural of?
Deaf adders is the plural of deaf adder.

Words near deaf adders in the dictionary

  1. deaerations
  2. deaerator
  3. deaerators
  4. deaf
  5. deaf adder
  6. deaf adders
  7. deaf aid
  8. deaf aids
  9. deaf and dumb
  10. deaf as a doorknob
  11. deaf as a doornail

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