Definitions for puff-adder

puff-adder puff adder

Puff-Adder is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in puff-adder (-addeffpru).

Definitions for puff-adder

noun

  1. a large, thick-bodied, African viper, Bitis arietans, that inflates its body and hisses when disturbed.
  2. a similar viper, B. inornata, native to southern Africa.

Origin of puff-adder

First recorded in 1780-90

Examples for puff-adder

Of all the Cape snakes the puff-adder is not only the deadliest, but by far the most to be feared.

Then you are a lucky man, for that beast is a puff-adder, a most deadly snake!

The cobra and the puff-adder are the most dangerous of these fearsome things.

It is a specimen—a very rare specimen—of the South African puff-adder.

A puff-adder was his first thought, looking around for the reptile.

A native ran forward and pinned down the puff-adder with his walking-stick of which the top was forked.

The puff-adder is the most common, as well as the most deadly, of African snakes.

When, however, one meets a puff-adder or a cobra, the fight is not equal.

What enthralled her attention yet more was the direction in which the puff-adder headed.

Another escape was from a puff-adder, a snake equally as deadly as the cobra.

Word Value for puff-adder
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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