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Horned viper   /hɔrnd vˈaɪpər/   Listen
Horned viper

noun
1.
Highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye.  Synonyms: cerastes, Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, sand viper.





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... stories of a dragon equipped with those distinctive tokens of Chinese origin, the deer's antlers; and along with it a snake with less specialized horns suggesting the Cerastes of Egypt and Babylonia. A horned viper distantly akin to the Cerastes of the Old World does occur in California; but its "horns" are so insignificant as to make it highly improbable that they could have been in any way responsible for the obtrusive role played by horns in these widespread American stories. But the ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith


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