Definition of Vipera or Clotho cornuta. Meaning of Vipera or Clotho cornuta. Synonyms of Vipera or Clotho cornuta

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Definition of Vipera or Clotho cornuta

Vipera or Clotho cornuta
Plume Plume, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plumed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pluming.] [Cf. F. plumer to pluck, to strip, L. plumare to cover with feathers.] 1. To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers. --W. Irving. 2. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. [Obs.] --Bacon. Dryden. 3. To adorn with feathers or plumes. ``Farewell the plumed troop.' --Shak. 4. To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill. --South. Plumed adder (Zo["o]l.), an African viper (Vipera, or Clotho cornuta), having a plumelike structure over each eye. It is venomous, and is related to the African puff adder. Called also horned viper and hornsman. Plumed partridge (Zo["o]l.), the California mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus). See Mountain quail, under Mountain.

Meaning of Vipera or Clotho cornuta from wikipedia

- Du****. 447 pp. (Vipera cornuta, p. 188.) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bitis cornuta. Many-horned adder (Bitis cornuta) at ARKive. Accessed...
- Cape Province, South Africa. The type locality is listed as "Sneeuwbergen, or Snow Mountains, ... immediately behind the village of Graaff Raynet" (Eastern...
- many-horned adder, syn. Vipera cornuta Daudin, 1803, Vipera lophophris Cuvier, 1829, Cerastes cornuta Gray, 1842, Clotho cornuta Gray, 1849, Cerastes lophophrys...