Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun copperhead

2 senses of copperhead

Sense 1
copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix -- (common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States)
       => pit viper -- (New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head)

Sense 2
copperhead, Denisonia superba -- (venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia)
       => elapid, elapid snake -- (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)