rattlesnake

See also: rattle snake

English

Alternative forms

rattle snake

Etymology

From rattle +‎ snake.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/
Audio (southern England) (file)

Noun

A rattlesnake.

rattlesnake (plural rattlesnakes)

Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.

Synonyms

rattler (colloquial, especially US)

Hypernyms

(snake): pit viper

Derived terms

Translations

venomous snake

Basque: kriskitin-suge
Bulgarian: гърмяща змия f (gǎrmjašta zmija)
Catalan: serp de cascavell f
Cherokee: ᎤᏦᎾᏘ (utsonati)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 響尾蛇／响尾蛇 (zh) (xiǎngwěishé)
Czech: chřestýš (cs) m
Danish: klapperslange (da)
Dutch: ratelslang (nl) f
Esperanto: krotalo, sonserpento
Finnish: kalkkarokäärme
French: crotale (fr) m, serpent à sonnettes m
Galician: serpe de cascabel f
German: Klapperschlange (de) f
Greek: κροταλίας (el) m (krotalías)
Hindi: रैटल स्नेक m (raiṭal snek)
Hungarian: csörgőkígyó (hu)
Ido: krotalo (io)
Irish: nathair shligreach f, péist ghliogair f
Italian: crotalo (it) m, serpente a sonagli m
Japanese: ガラガラ蛇 (garagarahebi), ガラガラヘビ (garagarahebi)
Karok: tapas'ápsuun
Korean: 방울뱀 (ko) (bang'ulbaem)
Latvian: klaburčūska f
Lithuanian: barškuolė (lt) f
Macedonian: ѕвечарка f (dzvečarka)
Malay: ular orok-orok
Nahuatl:
Central: tepocolcoatl

Central Huasteca: kuechkoatl

Classical: teuctlacozauhqui

Western Huasteca: kuejkuech
Nanticoke: eeh!seekq
Navajo: tłʼiish áníní, naʼashǫ́ʼii ánínígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: klapperslange m

Nynorsk: klapperorm m
Ojibwe: zhiishiigwe
Polish: grzechotnik (pl) m
Portuguese: cascavel (pt) f
Romanian: șarpe cu clopoței (ro)
Russian: грему́чая змея́ (ru) f (gremúčaja zmejá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: звечарка f

Roman: zvečarka (sh) f, čegrtuša (sh) f
Silesian: szczyrkowa f
Slovak: štrkáč m
Slovene: klopotača (sl) f
Spanish: serpiente de cascabel (es) f, cascabel (es) f
Swedish: skallerorm (sv) c
Taos: pę̀cu’úna
Turkish: çıngıraklı yılan (tr)
Ukrainian: гриму́ча змі́я f (hrymúča zmíja)

References

rattlesnake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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