adder
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈædɚ/
adder (plural adders)
- (obsolete) Any snake.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
- CALIBAN:
- His spirits hear me,
- And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch
- Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,
- Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark
- Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
- For every trifle are they set upon me,
- Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me,
- And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which
- Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount
- Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I
- All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues
- Do hiss me into madness—
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
- A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
- (chiefly, British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- The common European adder (Vipera berus).
- The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
- Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
- Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snake), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
- Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- (chiefly, British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
adder (plural adders)
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- Something which adds or increases.
- They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
- Portuguese: somador, somadora
- Spanish: sumador
- Portuguese: somador, somadora
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