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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L., a horned serpent, fr. Gr.

κεράστησ

horned, fr.

κέρασ

horn.]

(Zool.)

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

Noun.

In zoology, the name of a serpent, of the genus Coluber, which the ancients supposed to have horns.