Cottonmouth

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs. uncountable
  2. 2
    venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States wordnet
  3. 3
    A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
  4. 4
    A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.

Etymology

From cotton + mouth.

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