Copper-belly

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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}.
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     2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who
        sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]
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