copper-belly

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copper-belly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Copperhead \Cop"per*head`\, n. [From its color.]
     1. (Zool.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon  conotortrix
        ), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but
        without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red  viper
        .
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     2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who
        sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]
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