Jararaca

Word JARARACA
Character 8
Hyphenation ‖Jar a ra ca
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The favorite prey of the mussurama is the most common and therefore the most dangerous poisonous snake of Brazil, the jararaca, which is known in Martinique as the fer-de-lance. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Almost as much dreaded as the jararaca is the enormous cuanacouchi ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

They at first refused -- Don Pablo among the rest -- but after a day or two, when each of the party had met with several narrow escapes from vipers, coral snakes, and the much-dreaded "jararaca," Don Pablo thought it prudent that all should submit to the operation, and accordingly Guapo "doctored" the party without more ado. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

They at first refused -- Don Pablo among the rest -- but after a day or two, when each of the party had met with several narrow escapes from vipers, coral snakes, and the much-dreaded "jararaca" (_craspedo-cephalus_), Don Pablo thought it prudent that all should submit to the operation, and accordingly ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The idea of using snake venom to treat heart disease may seem strange, yet that is exactly what Bristol-Myers Squibb did when they used the venom of a pit viper, Bothrops jararaca, to develop Capoten (captopril). ❋ Unknown (2007)

He died three hours after being bitten by the _jararaca_. ❋ Algot Lange (N/A)

The ground was hilly and interspersed with deeply cut creeks where we could see the ugly heads of the _jararaca_ snakes pop up as if they were waiting for us. ❋ Algot Lange (N/A)

A dozen species are known in Brazil, the biggest one being identical with the Guiana bushmaster, and the most common one, the jararaca, being identical, or practically identical with the fer-de-lance. ❋ Unknown (1914)

He lit a light and saw that a big jararaca had been caught in the trap; and he preserved it as a specimen. ❋ Unknown (1914)

But the effect of the venom of the poisonous colubrine snakes is totally different from, although to the full as deadly as, the effect of the poison of the rattlesnake or jararaca. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Apparently it trusted little to its eyes, for it began to run its head along the body of the jararaca, darting out its flickering tongue to feel just where it was, as it nosed its way up toward the head of its antagonist. ❋ Unknown (1914)

That evening round the camp-fire Colonel Rondon happened to mention how the brother of one of the soldiers with us—a Parecís Indian—had been killed by a jararaca snake. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Then it took two coils round the neck of the jararaca and proceeded deliberately to try to break the backbone of its opponent by twisting the head round. ❋ Unknown (1914)

After this, the mussurama proceeded deliberately, but with unbroken speed, to devour its opponent by the simple process of crawling outside it, the body and tail of the jararaca writhing and struggling until the last. ❋ Unknown (1914)

In the jararaca an extraordinary quantity of yellow venom is spurted from the long poison-fangs. ❋ Unknown (1914)

There was tremendous writhing and struggling on the part of the jararaca; and then, leaning over the knot into which the two serpents were twisted, I saw that the mussurama had seized the jararaca by the lower jaw, putting its own head completely into the wide-gaping mouth of the poisonous snake. ❋ Unknown (1914)

It is the great quantity of venom injected by the long fangs of the jararaca, the bushmaster, and their fellows that renders their bite so generally fatal. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Meanwhile the mussurama was chewing hard, and gradually shifted its grip, little by little, until it got the top of the head of the jararaca in its mouth, the lower jaw of the jararaca being spread out to one side. ❋ Unknown (1914)

These poisons are somewhat different and moreover there appear to be some differences between the poisons of the different species of lachecis; in some cases the poison is nearly colorless, and in others, as in that of the jararaca, whose poison I saw, it is yellow. ❋ Unknown (1914)

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