moccasin

moccasin
noun
  1. a soft leather slipper or shoe, strictly one without a separate heel, having the sole turned up on all sides and sewn to the upper in a simple gathered seam, in a style originating among North American Indians
    无跟软鞋(一种软皮拖鞋或鞋,严格来说无鞋跟,由底皮上翻,与帮部折缝而成,缘于北美印第安人)
  2. a venomous American pit viper. (see cottonmouth)
    食鱼蝮,噬鱼蛇。 (见cottonmouth)
  3. Genus Agkistrodon, family Viperidae: three species, in particular the water or cottonmouth moccasin (see cottonmouth) and the highland moccasin (see copperhead.)
    蝮属,蝰科:3种,尤指水噬鱼蛇(见cottonmouth)和高地噬鱼蛇(见 copperhead)
语源
  1. early 17th cent.: from Virginia Algonquian mockasin. The word is also found in other American Indian languages
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