puff adderとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Afrikaans or South African Dutch pofadder.

名詞

puffadder (複数形 puffadders)

1. A viper or adder, Bitis arietans, found in Southern Africa. [from late 18th c.]
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.