From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcopperheadcop‧per‧head /ˈkɒpəhed $ ˈkɑːpər-/ noun [countable] HBAa poisonous yellow and brown North American snake
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copperhead• Norman still has a scar on his hand from an encounter with a female copperhead when he was a teen-ager. 