ADDER, a name for the common viper ( Vipera cevus), ranging
from Wales to Saghalien island, and from Caithness to the north
of Spain. The puff-adder (Bitis s. Echidna arietans) of
nearly the whole of Africa, and the death-adder (Acanthophis
antarcticus) from
Australia to the Moluccas, are both very
poisonous (see VIPER). The word was in Old Eng. noedre,
later nadder or naddre
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