Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Antigonon leptopus, an ornamental climbing-vine of the family Polygonaceæ, which boars clusters of showy pink flowers.
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Examples
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Woe betide the belated pedestrian, or even horseman, if he happens to pass under a tree which forms the ambuscade of a coralillo snake!
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As soon as the head of a man comes under the branch which shelters the coralillo, this enemy of man, coiling its tail round the branch, dives down into space with all the length of is body, and strikes with its fangs at the man's forehead.
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There is the chicaclina, a striped viper, of beautiful colours – the coralillo, a viper of a coral colour, with a black head – the vinagrillo, an animal like a large cricket.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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_chicaclina_, a striped viper, of beautiful colours -- the _coralillo_, a viper of a coral colour, with a black head -- the _vinagrillo_, an animal like a large cricket.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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