puff adderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• puff adder, puff-adder

語源

Borrowed from Afrikaans or South African Dutch pofadder.

名詞

puffadder (複数形 puffadders)

1. Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,
   1. especially, a common puffadder (Bitis arietans), found in Southern Africa. [from late 18th c.]
      • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

        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.

参照

• puffadder on Wikipedia.
• Bitis on Wikispecies.
• Bitis on Wikimedia Commons.