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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADDER , a name for the See also:

common See also:viper ( Vipera cevus), ranging from See also:Wales to Saghalien See also:island, and from See also:Caithness to the See also:north of See also:Spain. The puff-adder (Bitis s. See also:Echidna arietans) of nearly the whole of See also:Africa, and the See also:death-adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) from See also:Australia to the See also:Moluccas, are both very poisonous (see VIPER). The word was in Old Eng. needre, later nadder or naddre; in the 14th See also:century " a nadder " was, like" a napron," wrongly divided into " an adder." It appears with the generic meaning of " See also:serpent " in the older forms of many See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Old High Ger. natra; Goth. nadrs. It is thus used in the Old Eng. version of the Scriptures for the See also:devil, the " serpent " of See also:Genesis.

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