Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a rattle, as a rattlesnake; specifically, pertaining to or having the characters of the Crotalinæ or Crotalidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the
Crotalidae , or Rattlesnake family.
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- adjective zoology Resembling, or relating to, the Crotalidae, or
rattlesnake family .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a strange swelling beneath her ribs; through her mind a swirl of sounds she had never heard and sights she had not seen: the rumbling hoofbeats of cavalry and the booming of big guns. the terrifying roars of Sphigx's lions, the silver voices of trumpets, and the sharp crotaline clatter of a buzz gun.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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There was a strange swelling beneath her ribs; through her mind a swirl of sounds she had never heard and sights she had not seen: the rumbling hoofbeats of cavalry and the booming of big guns. the terrifying roars of Sphigx's lions, the silver voices of trumpets, and the sharp crotaline clatter of a buzz gun.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Death resulting typically from crotaline poisoning occurred in two instances, one the fourteen-year-old boy, who was struck by a large rattlesnake and died in six hours, despite skilled and prompt medical attendance; the other, a Dr. Post, into whose veins, it would appear, the poison entered immediately, since a jet of blood spurted from the wound inflicted by the captive rattlesnake.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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Setting the boy's lesser age and resistant power against the fact of the laborer's being bitten in a worse place (for crotaline venom is much more effective in an upper limb or extremity than in a lower), we have a fairly illustrative instance of the relative merits of alcoholic and non-alcoholic measures.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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I have heard of similar recurrent effects from crotaline poisoning, but none scientifically attested, as is this phenomenon.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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The venom is related to snake poison, but is neither crotaline nor elapine.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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There is nothing in these data to indicate that a full-grown man in normal health, and with proper treatment, will succumb to crotaline poisoning unless the venom enters a vein, direct.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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(1730-6) -1755 OW hylobatine gibbon OW crotaline rattlesnake hystricine porcupine
emily_morine commented on the word crotaline
Rattlesnake-like.
December 8, 2006
qms commented on the word crotaline
That rattle is dire serpentine -
Your comfort and his don't align.
The gauntlet is flung
Before you are stung
If the snake that you rile's crotaline.
September 1, 2016