cottonmouth
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cottonmouth (plural cottonmouths)
- (medicine, uncountable) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
- A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
- A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.
Synonyms
[edit]- (oral dryness): dry mouth, xerostomia
Derived terms
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[edit]oral dryness
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water moccasin — see water moccasin