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puff adder en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans or South African Dutch pofadder.

Meanings

1. Any viper or adder in genus Bitis,
2. Any viper or adder in genus Bitis, ▸ especially, a common puffadder (Bitis arietans), found in Southern Africa.
   • In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

forest puff adder

Synonyms

African adder

Translations (25)

sw moma (Bitis arietans) · xom shʉʉm (Bitis arietans) · ca escurçó bufador (Bitis arietans) · fi puffadderi (Bitis arietans) · nuj efulugundu (Bitis arietans) · pt biúta (Bitis arietans) · ny mphiri (Bitis arietans) · am ዘንዶ (Bitis arietans) · gv aarnieu çhiu (Bitis arietans) · nmz jakpatr (Bitis arietans) · dag bahiga (Bitis arietans) · af pofadder (Bitis arietans) · ru шумя́щая гадю́ка (Bitis arietans) · it vipera soffiante (Bitis arietans) · de Puffotter (Bitis arietans) · dik anyak (Bitis arietans) · ca monarub (Bitis arietans) · nl pofadder (Bitis arietans) · fr vipère heurtante (Bitis arietans) · ki itahuha (Bitis arietans) · nko ɩbɛ (Bitis arietans) · ko 뻐끔살무사 (Bitis arietans) · es víbora bufadora (Bitis arietans) · gej jàkpàtà (Bitis arietans) · ajg gbedru (Bitis arietans)