Definitions for cottonmouth

cottonmouth cot·ton·mouth

Spelling: [kot-n-mouth]
IPA: /ˈkɒt nˌmaʊθ/

Cottonmouth is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in cottonmouth (chmnoootttu).

Definitions for cottonmouth

noun

  1. a venomous snake, Agkistrodon (Ancistrodon) piscivorus, of swamps in southeastern U.S., that grows to about 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Origin of cottonmouth

1825-35, Americanism; cotton + mouth, so called from the whiteness of its lips and mouth

Examples for cottonmouth

The cottonmouth occurs throughout the coastal plains of the southeastern United States, usually at altitudes of 500 feet or less.

There is little paleontological evidence illustrating evolution of the cottonmouth or for that matter of crotalids in general.

Food is obtained by a variety of methods depending on the type of food, age of the cottonmouth, and possibly other factors.

When he threw it down a cottonmouth moccasin crawled out of a hole in it.

All are of late Pleistocene Age and well within the present geographic range of the cottonmouth.

The name "cottonmouth" also was derived from this behavior, although the lining of the mouth is whitish in most other snakes.

The named, American kinds of Agkistrodon currently are arranged as three species: the copperhead, the cantil and the cottonmouth.

In getting ashore I landed right beside a cottonmouth moccasin snake, said to be as poisonous as a rattlesnake.

The young are more nearly alike in appearance than adults, the copperhead and the cottonmouth being easily confused.

But then, mysteriously, they all contracted strange ailments: cottonmouth, headaches, and severe dehydration.

Word Value for cottonmouth
Scrable

18

Words with friends

21

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