How to Use pit viper in a Sentence

pit viper

noun

• This is what the venom of the Russell’s pit viper does to blood.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
• Everybody knows about the fer-de-lance, which is the deadly pit viper.
  — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2013
• The pit vipers in the genus Trimeresurus are venomous, and found throughout East and Southeast Asia.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
• Clamp and Andrews said your response should be the same no matter which type of pit viper bites you.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 24 July 2022
• The venom of the Brazilian pit viper, which causes a sudden drop in blood pressure in its prey.
  — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 9 Nov. 2020
• Both are pit vipers and have triangular heads and fangs.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Captopril, the first, was created in the 1970s from the venom of a Brazilian jararaca pit viper to treat high blood pressure.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Avoid like a pit viper any mushy ones, and make sure the papery husk looks at least somewhat fresh and greenish, not all brown and wrinkly like my Uncle Sid before the face-lift.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
• Snake-lovers celebrated the inclusion of the lime-green Mangshan pit viper.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• But Salazar’s pit viper seems to be set apart from the rest by an orange-reddish stripe found on the sides of the heads of males, according to Annie Lord at the Independent.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• The animals are a type of pit viper, and have small indentations in their head, between their eyes and nostrils, which allow them to sense heat.
  — National Geographic, 22 July 2019
• The other two species, also part of the pit viper family, are the timber rattlesnake and eastern massasauga.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2019
• Only a few other animals, such as vampire bats and pit vipers, are known to have this ability.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
• Clamp, Andrews and other experts say do not apply a tourniquet to a pit viper bite (which is something Vuncannon did).
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 24 July 2022
• Trails had to be cut from the dense understory with machetes, pit vipers lurked everywhere and nasty spines that grow on many plants could easily puncture boots and skin.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
• The owner also explained that the city removed two other snakes from his residence, including a pit viper.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Except for the very gory part, the world's largest roundup somewhat resembles a Texas county fair with pit vipers instead of livestock, and snake-handlers replacing ranch kids.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2018
• Andueza was heading out for a slog through a swamp where pit vipers patrol the undergrowth and carnivorous caimans, hidden in dark pools, eye passersby.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Salazar’s pit viper now joins a small, exclusive club of animals whose species names contain homages to the Harry Potter franchise, according to Forbes.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• Captopril, the first of a class of drugs for high blood pressure known as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors was developed from a small protein in the venom of a Brazilian pit viper.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
• The team analyzed the genome of the Taiwan habu (Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus) brown pit viper to see which genes are associated with the venom system.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 5 Apr. 2021
• Alligators, Chinese bamboo pit vipers, tomatillos, frogs with sling shots.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
• Snake-mimic caterpillar The larvae of hawk moths ward off predators by impersonating deadly pit vipers.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
• Thankfully the United States is home to fewer venomous snake species than other parts of the world, but several native types of pit vipers and coral snakes can deliver dangerous toxic enzymes with a single strike.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2018
• The expedition team also found the mountain fer-de-lance (Bothrops monsignifer), a new species of venomous pit viper, which uses heat-sensing pits on its head to detect prey, and the Bolivian flag snake (Eutrachelophis sp.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
• Everything from barracudas and turtles to manatees — as well as alligators, crocodiles and the Florida cottonmouth, a venomous, semi-aquatic pit viper — have been found in its waters.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022

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