Cottonmouth Definition

Cottonmouth Sentence Examples

• Adult cottonmouth snakes are usually longer than three feet, with rare specimens reaching over six feet.

• Poisonous serpents, such as the cottonmouth and copperhead, will have slit pupils.

• Among venomous snakes the harlequin, or coral snake (Elaps fulvius) is common along the coast; the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) along the wooded banks of creeks and rivers; the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), in all parts of the state except the more arid districts; the "sidewiper," or massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus consors, sometimes called Crotalophorus tergeminus) and the ground rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius), in all sections.