cottonmouth
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Etymology [edit]
Noun [edit]
cottonmouth (plural cottonmouths)
- (medicine, uncountable) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
- A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
- A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.
Synonyms [edit]
- (oral dryness): dry mouth, xerostomia
