Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the back marked with lozenge-shaped figures.
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Examples
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A huge diamond-backed rattlesnake blocked the path, coiled and poised to strike, rattling at me like mad.
ɘloЯ 2010
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Doubtless they had holes somewhere about the base of the mound and there might be a dozen big diamond-backed rattlers coiled up in that cave-like interior waiting for him to put his hand among them.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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We took a peep at the diamond-backed dining-room, and when I saw the waiters refusing everything but certified checks in the way of a tip, I said to Peaches, "This is no place for us!"
You Should Worry Says John Henry Hugh McHugh
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After that, she led Bernice off to a dense thicket where she said she had something to show her and, to Bernice's horror, exhibited a huge diamond-backed rattlesnake, coiled as if asleep.
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In the experiments on snake poisons he was conducting he had in confinement a six-foot diamond-backed Florida rattler.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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The first impulse of Clanton had been to stamp out the life of this man just as he would that of a diamond-backed rattlesnake; but he meant to take his time about it and to see that the fellow suffered.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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All the diamond-backed terrapins at fifty dollars a dozen which he might be invited to enjoy after that would do him no harm.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867
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The eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake's birthing moment was even more dramatic, as she suddenly produced 19 very healthy offspring consisting of 10 females and nine males.
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A diamond-backed water snake floats on a partly submerged branch, letting the sun bake him into wakefulness, when he'll slither off and hunt for perch in the shallows.
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A diamond-backed water snake floats on a partly submerged branch, letting the sun bake him into wakefulness, when he'll slither off and hunt for perch in the shallows.
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