From rattle + snake.
rattlesnake (plural rattlesnakes)
- Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
- rattler (colloquial, especially US)
venomous snake
- Arabic: أَفْعًى مُجَلْجِلَة f (ʔafʕan mujaljila)
- Basque: kriskitin-suge
- Bulgarian: гърмяща змия f (gǎrmjašta zmija)
- Catalan: serp de cascavell f
- Cherokee: ᎤᏦᎾᏘ (utsonati)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 響尾蛇/响尾蛇 (zh) (xiǎngwěishé)
- Czech: chřestýš (cs) m
- Danish: klapperslange (da)
- Dutch: ratelslang (nl) f
- Esperanto: krotalo, sonserpento
- Finnish: kalkkarokäärme (fi)
- French: crotale (fr) m, serpent à sonnettes m
- Galician: serpe de cascabel f
- Georgian: ჩხრიალა გველი (čxriala gveli)
- German: Klapperschlange (de) f
- Greek: κροταλίας (el) m (krotalías)
- Hindi: रैटल स्नेक m (raiṭal snek)
- Hungarian: csörgőkígyó (hu)
- Icelandic: skröltormur m
- Ido: krotalo (io)
- Irish: nathair shligreach f, péist ghliogair f
- Italian: crotalo (it) m, serpente a sonagli m
- Japanese: ガラガラ蛇 (garagarahebi), ガラガラヘビ (garagarahebi)
- Karok: tapas'ápsuun
- Klamath-Modoc: qɁis
- Korean: 방울뱀 (ko) (bang'ulbaem)
- Latin: quatiator m
- Latvian: klaburčūska f
- Lithuanian: barškuolė (lt) f
- Macedonian: ѕвечарка f (dzvečarka)
- Malay: ular orok-orok
- Nahuatl:
- Central: tepocolcoatl
- Central Huasteca: kuechkoatl
- Classical: teuctlacozauhqui
- Western Huasteca: kuejkuech
- Nanticoke: eeh!seekq
- Navajo: tłʼiish áníní, naʼashǫ́ʼii ánínígíí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: klapperslange m
- Nynorsk: klapperorm m
- Ojibwe: zhiishiigwe
- Polish: grzechotnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: cascavel (pt) f
- Romanian: șarpe cu clopoței (ro)
- Russian: грему́чая змея́ (ru) f (gremúčaja zmejá), грему́чник (ru) m (gremúčnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: звечарка f
- Roman: zvečarka (sh) f, čegrtuša (sh) f
- Silesian: szczyrkowa f
- Slovak: štrkáč m
- Slovene: klopotača (sl) f
- Spanish: serpiente de cascabel (es) f, cascabel (es) f
- Swedish: skallerorm (sv) c
- Taos: pę̀cuʼúna
- Turkish: çıngıraklı yılan (tr)
- Ukrainian: гриму́ча змі́я f (hrymúča zmíja)
- Vietnamese: rắn chuông, rắn đuôi chuông
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