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词汇 sidewinder
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sidewinder n.

small horned rattlesnake of southwestern U.S., 1875, American English, from side (adj.) + agent noun of wind (v.1), so called in reference to its "peculiar lateral progressive motion" (from an 1875 U.S. Army report on zoology of the West). Also sidewiper (1888).

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