FER DE LANCE
\fˈɜː də lˈans], \fˈɜː də lˈans], \f_ˈɜː d_ə l_ˈa_n_s]\
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By Princeton University
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A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
By Oddity Software
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A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
By Noah Webster.
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A genus of poisonous snakes of the VIPERIDAE family. About 50 species are known and all are found in tropical America and southern South America. Bothrops atrox is the fer-de-lance and B. jararaca is the jararaca. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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