Vi`per*oi"de*a (?), Vi`per*oi"des (?), n. pl. [NL. See Viper, and -oid.] Zool.

A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.

 

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