fer-de-lance

NOUN
  1. large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America
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How To Use fer-de-lance In A Sentence

  • This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
  • The more ferocious snakes here include fer-de-lance Bothrops asper, coral snake Micrurus spp., boa constrictor Boa constrictor, palm pit-viper Bothriechis spp. and bushmaster Lachesis muta. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
  • Pit vipers, including the fer-de-lance and Mojave rattlesnake, have only two pits, one below each eye.
  • The snakes include the anaconda Eunectes murinus, fer-de-lance Bothrops asper, palm pit-vipers Bothriechis spp., coral snakes Micrurus spp., the bushmaster Lachesis muta and boa constrictor Boa constrictor. Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
  • The fer-de-lance, a pit viper from Central and South America, has in its venom several highly effective cytotoxins - chemicals that target living cells.
  • The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road.
  • Ever since I was a kid names like fer-de-lance and bushmaster have been magical to me.
  • The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road.
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