Cottonmouths [verb]

Here, in their presence, David felt the loathing for the Hatburns a snake inspires—dusty brown rattlers and silent cottonmouths.

But there were cottonmouths down there too, with death behind their fangs, and no love for the life that was crawling upward.

The spine of embryos and young cottonmouths is blunt, but is pointed in most adults.

Accounts in the literature of 15 litters of cottonmouths fix the time of birth as August and September.

Cottonmouths, like other pit-vipers, have their teeth reduced in number and have enlarged, highly specialized fangs.

In 1963 I examined the fangs of 14 cottonmouths at four- to seven-day intervals for a period of six weeks.

I found a double set of fangs in cottonmouths only twice in the six-week period.

I have seen cottonmouths in various types of aquatic habitats in Brazoria County.

Interspecific competition may be reduced somewhat by cottonmouths sometimes feeding on water-snakes.

Slightly more than a mile downstream cottonmouths are common in a bottomland area.