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fer-de-lance
[ fer-dl-ans, -ahns ]
noun
- a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
fer-de-lance
/ ËŒ´Úɛə»åəˈ±ôɑ˲Բõ /
noun
- a large highly venomous tropical American snake, Trimeresurus (or Bothops ) atrox , with a greyish-brown mottled coloration: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of fer-de-lance1
1875–80; < French: literally, spearhead
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of fer-de-lance1
C19: from French, literally: iron (head) of a lance
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The week before we arrived his son was bitten on the foot by a venomous fer-de-lance pit viper in the nearby forest.
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Unless it is a fer-de-lance, or bothrops asper, a nasty pit viper found in Central and South America.
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The fer-de-lance, for instance, was once considered just another deadly South American viper.
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And there are chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes, and venomous fer-de-lance snakes.
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One of the deadliest snakes in Mexico, a tawny fer-de-lance, was slithering by his head, 30 centimeters away.
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