Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large venomous snake (Lachesis muta) of tropical America, having brown and grayish markings.

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  • noun A venomous pit viper, Lachesis muta, from tropical America

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  • Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: For President Bushmaster - a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match \'em bam-for-BAM!) - to suggest it was "disgusting" is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.'

    Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful 2007

  • After removing the vicious harmless snake, the doctor warned us to get away from the table, and his attendant put on it, in succession, a very big lachecis—of the kind called bushmaster—and a big rattlesnake.

    I. The Start 1914

  • After removing the vicious harmless snake, the doctor warned us to get away from the table, and his attendant put on it, in succession, a very big lachecis -- of the kind called bushmaster -- and a big rattlesnake.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • The team of scientists, who work for Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International, also identified four new species of stick insect, three species of lungless salamanders, a tiny, scaly-eyed gecko known as Lepidoblepharis buschwaldii and a bushmaster, which is the longest viper in the world.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Mikunited 2010

  • The team of scientists, who work for Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International, also identified four new species of stick insect, three species of lungless salamanders, a tiny, scaly-eyed gecko known as Lepidoblepharis buschwaldii and a bushmaster, which is the longest viper in the world.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories Mikunited 2010

  • The aussies are also looking at a replacement for the M113 called the bushmaster, again it has all the makings of a white elephant, I saw one at Enoggra (aus army garrison) when I enquired to the drive "how well" it went he simply replied "dunno mate its hasnt moved for two months!"

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • The aussies are also looking at a replacement for the M113 called the bushmaster, again it has all the makings of a white elephant, I saw one at Enoggra (aus army garrison) when I enquired to the drive "how well" it went he simply replied "dunno mate its hasnt moved for two months!"

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • For those who may be unaware, a "bushmaster" is a dangerous, venomous snake that lies in the grass, to amBush it's victims.

    An important read for everyone who feels a conscience counts 2008

  • And for President Bushmaster — a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match ‘em bam-for-BAM!) — to suggest it was “disgusting” is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.

    Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful 2007

  • They had a gang bust in Newburgh, and there was a bullpupped rifle which the idiot reporter said was a "bushmaster".

    Latest Articles toledoblade 2010

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