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moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
a soft leather heelless shoe or boot with the sole brought up the sides of the foot and over the toes where it is joined with a puckered seam to a U-shaped piece lying on top of the foot
moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
a regular shoe having a seam on the forepart of the vamp imitating the seam of a moccasin
moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
water moccasin
moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
any of several lady's slippers (genus Cypripedium); especially : a once common woodland orchid (C. acaule) of eastern North America with pink or white moccasin-shaped flowers
moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
water moccasin
moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
a venomous semiaquatic pit viper (Agkistrodon piscivorus) chiefly of the southeastern U.S. that is closely related to the copperhead —called also cottonmouth, cottonmouth moccasin
moccasin
noun(moc-ca-sin)
a harmless American colubrid water snake (genus Nerodia) resembling the true water moccasin

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