2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Copperhead \Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.] 1. (Zool.) A poisonous American serpent ({Ancistrodon conotortrix}), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also {copper-belly}, and {red viper}. [1913 Webster] 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: copperhead n 1: common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States [syn: {Agkistrodon contortrix}] 2: venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn: {Denisonia superba}]
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