noun
- Large Old World boas.
- A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit.
- Greek mythology. ( dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi).
Python and Copperhead
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A diviner by spirits.
- (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States.
- synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix
- Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia.
- synonyms: Denisonia superba
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
- (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(Military) COPPERHEAD stands for name for cannon-launched guided projectile
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.