Cerastes

·noun A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

cerastes
cĕrastes, ae or is, m., = κεράστης (horned). I A horned serpent , the cerastes : Coluber cerastes, ...

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cerastes
cerastēs ae, m , κεράστης, a horned serpent, Pr. ...

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