Russell's viper
nounEtymology
Named in honour of Patrick Russell (1726–1805), Scottish herpetologist who first described many of India's snakes.
Definitions
The venomous viper Daboia russelii.
- Some weeks before, one of the masters at the College, an unpopular Parsee, had found a Russell's viper nosing round his classroom.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Russell's viper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA