[Native name in Tupi-Guarani.] A venomous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops Jararaca) of the family Crotalidæ.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 842. Snakes, as the Iararaca, of … foure kinds, of muskie sent, one ten spannes long.
1708. trans. Nieuhoff’s Brazil, in Pinkerton, Voy. (1808), XIV. 714. The serpent Jararaka is short, seldom exceeding the length of an arm to the elbow.
1825. A. Caldcleugh, Trav. S. Amer., I. ii. 40. The jararáca is sometimes … six feet in length.
