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pit-adder

pit-adder is the alternative form of pit adder.

Meaning of pit adder

Noun

pit adder (plural pit adders)

  1. Synonym of pit viper: any of various venomous snakes of the family Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or groove on either side of the head which enables them to detect prey by infrared sensing.
    • The two chief poisonous families of the rest of the globe, the vipers (Viperidae) and the pit-adders (Crotalida;), are entirely absent, their place being supplied by the Elapidae, [...]1893, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, Australasia
    Synonyms:
    pit viper

Forms of pit-adder

pluralpit-adders

Questions about pit-adder

What is pit-adder the alternative form of?
Pit-adder is the alternative form of pit adder.

Words near pit-adder in the dictionary

  1. pit wheels
  2. pit-a-pat
  3. pit-a-pats
  4. pit-a-patted
  5. pit-a-patting
  6. pit-adder
  7. pit-adders
  8. pit-boss
  9. pit-bosses
  10. pit-eye
  11. pit-eyes

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