rattlesnake

See also: rattle snake

English

Alternative forms

• rattle snake

Etymology

From rattle +‎ snake.

Noun

A rattlesnake.

rattlesnake (plural rattlesnakes)

1. Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and , having a rattle at the end of its tail.

Synonyms

• rattler (colloquial, especially US)

Hypernyms

• (snake): pit viper

Translations

venomous snake

• Basque: kriskitin-suge
• Bulgarian: гърмяща змия f (gǎrmjašta zmija)
• Catalan: serp de cascavell f
• Cherokee: ᎤᏦᎾᏘ (utsonati)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 響尾蛇／响尾蛇 (zh) (xiǎngwěishé), 响尾蛇 (zh) (xiǎngwěishé)

• Czech: chřestýš (cs) m
• Danish: klapperslange (da)
• Dutch: ratelslang (nl) f
• Esperanto: krotalo, sonserpento
• Finnish: kalkkarokäärme
• French: crotale (fr) m, serpent à sonnettes m
• Galician: serpe de cascabel f
• German: Klapperschlange (de) f
• Greek: κροταλίας (el) m (krotalías)
• Hindi: रैटल स्नेक m (raiṭal snek)
• Hungarian: csörgőkígyó (hu)
• Ido: krotalo (io)
• Irish: nathair shligreach f, péist ghliogair f
• Italian: crotalo (it) m, serpente a sonagli m
• Japanese: ガラガラ蛇 (garagarahebi), ガラガラヘビ (garagarahebi)
• Karok: tapas'ápsuun
• Latvian: klaburčūska f
• Lithuanian: barškuolė (lt) f
• Macedonian: ѕвечарка f (dzvečarka)
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• Malay: ular orok-orok
• Nahuatl:

  Central: tepocolcoatl

  Central Huasteca: kuechkoatl

  Classical: teuctlacozauhqui

  Western Huasteca: kuejkuech

• Nanticoke: eeh!seekq
• Navajo: tłʼiish áníní, naʼashǫ́ʼii ánínígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klapperslange m

• Ojibwe: zhiishiigwe
• Polish: grzechotnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: cascavel (pt) f
• Romanian: șarpe cu clopoței (ro)
• Russian: грему́чая змея́ (ru) f (gremúčaja zmejá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: звечарка f

  Roman: zvečarka (sh) f, čegrtuša (sh) f

• Silesian: szczyrkowa f
• Slovak: štrkáč m
• Slovene: klopotača (sl) f
• Spanish: serpiente de cascabel (es) f, cascabel (es) f
• Swedish: skallerorm (sv) c
• Taos: pę̀cu’úna
• Turkish: çıngıraklı yılan (tr)

Derived terms

• rattlesnake root
• rattlesnaking

 

References

• rattlesnake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia