Crotaline. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. [f. as prec. + -INE.] Of or belonging to the rattlesnake family.

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1865.  Athenæum, No. 1950. 344/2. A genus of crotaline serpents.

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1882.  Miss C. C. Hopley, Snakes, xvii. 312. That the sexes [of rattlesnakes] also understand each other through crotaline eloquence is generally believed.

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