BUSHMASTER

large venomous snake, Lachesis muta, of Central America and N South America. It is a member of the pit viper family, which also includes the rattlesnake. The largest New World snake, it reaches a length of 8 to 12 ft (2.5–5.5 m). It is gray and brown, with a diamond pattern. Unlike most pit vipers, which bear live young, the bushmaster lays eggs. It is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae.

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books on: Bushmaster  - 50 results

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The Great Naturalists Explore South America
Book by Paul Russell Cutright; The Macmillan Company, 1940
Subjects: Naturalists, Zoology--South America
...242 BUSHMASTER 243...Guiana animals--the caiman, toucan, bushmaster, jaguar, sting ray, and many others...a few chapters on such forms as the bushmaster, fer-de-lance, and vampire bat that...
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Confessions of a Scientist
Book by Raymond L. Ditmars; The Macmillan Company, 1934
Subjects: Animal Behavior, Reptiles, Zoology
...6 WHERE A BUSHMASTER WAS ENCOUNTERED 6...to study the prowling grounds of the bushmaster, the largest poisonous serpent of the...floor. For years I had regarded the bushmaster as everywhere rare. In the thirty-three...
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A Bat Man in the Tropics: Chasing El Duende
Book by Theodore H. Fleming; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Bats--Tropics
...museum collections, asked me how I happened to capture a bushmaster in Panama. That little snake was a bushmaster? I asked incredulously. Having since learned how dangerous bushmaster bites are from working in bushmaster country in Costa...
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The Bradley and How It Got That Way: Technology, Institutions, and the Problem of Mechanized Infantry in the United States Army
Book by W. Blair Haworth Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Mechanization, Military--United States--History, United States--Army--Infantry, United States--Army--Organization
...ROAD Reorganization Objective Army Division SSG Staff Sergeant TACOM Tank-Automotive Command TBAT-II TOW-Bushmaster Armored Turret, Two-man TRADOC Training and Doctrine Command U-COFT Unit Conduct of Fire Trainer VC Viet...
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Footprints of the Forest: Ka'Apor Ethnobotany; the Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People
Book by William Balee; Columbia University Press, 1994
Subjects: Botany, Economic--Brazil, Human Ecology--Brazil, Urubu Kaapor Indians--Ethnobotany
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journal articles on: Bushmaster  - 1 result

 
 
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Mcguane's First Three Novels: Games, Fun, Nemesis
Journal article by Albert Howard Carter III; Critique, Vol. 17, 1975
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...11 Albert Howard Carter, III, An Interview with Thomas McGuane, unpublished. 12 Dances boat is named "Bushmaster" (9). One cannot feel much sympathy for Dance after reading this dictionary entry: "The largest of the New World pit vipers...


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magazine articles on: Bushmaster  - 12 results

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License to Kill: How the GOP Helped John Allen Muhammad Get a Sniper Rifle
Magazine article by Brent Kendall; Washington Monthly, Vol. 35, January 2003
Subjects: Firearms industry--Laws, regulations, etc., Malvo, John Lee--Cases, Muhammad, John Allen--Cases, Murder--Cases, National Rifle Association--Political activity
...gun was a .223-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster XM15 rifle, which Bulls Eye received...law enforcement authorities found the Bushmaster in the back seat of a blue CheW Caprice...store this summer, and later noticed the Bushmaster was not in its display case. But the...
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Symposium
Magazine article by Matt Nosanchuk, Stephen P. Hallbrook; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, November 26, 2002
Subjects: Ballistics--Laws, regulations, etc., Ballistics--Reports, Conferences and conventions, Muhammad, John Allen--Cases, National Rifle Association, United States--Laws, regulations, etc.
...bullets and casing were linked. Had Bushmaster Firearms of Windham, Maine, the manufacturer...Supply in Tacoma, where the brand-new Bushmaster had been sent in June 2002. Instead...the federal assault-weapons ban. The Bushmaster XM15 M4 A3 rifle used by the sniper...
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Military Should Rein in Baptizing Chaplain in Iraq, Americans United Urges
Magazine article; Church & State, Vol. 56, May 2003
Subjects: Baptism--Political aspects, Soldiers--Religious aspects, United States. Army--Religious aspects
...Army officials last month. Americans United has asked the Army to rein in the activities of Chaplain Josh Llano at Camp Bushmaster in Iraq. On April 4, the Miami Herald reported that Llano bragged about enticing soldiers to become baptized by offering them...
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Amazing Amazon Animals
Magazine article by Alison Duffy; World and I, Vol. 21, October 2006
...the dry season. Reptiles The longest viper in the world, the bushmaster, is found in the heart of the Amazon. It can reach a length...1.4 inches long and primarily preys on small mammals. The bushmaster has heat sensitive pits that can detect a raise in temperature...
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Terror's Blueprint
Magazine article; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, November 12, 2002
Subjects: Malvo, John Lee--Cases, Muhammad, John Allen--Cases, Terrorism--Analysis, Terrorism--Cases
...sources claim, link the two alleged killers to the crimes--including ballistic evidence, witnesses and the sniper weapon--a Bushmaster rifle that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms identifies as matching the ballistic fingerprint of bullets extracted...
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newspaper articles on: Bushmaster  - 61 results

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Authorities Recover a Wealth of Evidence
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 25, 2002
...Matthew Cella, THE WASHINGTON TIMES A Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle, bullet fragments...and Montgomery, Ala. The rifle, a Bushmaster X-M-15 .223, was said to have been found...familiar with the weapon, described the Bushmaster .223 as a "quality piece." He said the...
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Testimony to Begin in Malvo Sniper Trial
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 17, 2003
Subjects: Malvo, John Lee, Muhammad, John Allen
...despite not being able to show the jury such key evidence as the Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle purportedly used in the killings, legal...Myersville, Md. Investigators also can testify about the Bushmaster rifle found in the car and how the trunk was modified to conceal...
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Sniper Suspects Set to Blame Each Other; Both Face Death Penalty as Trial Looms
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2003
Subjects: Malvo, John Lee, Muhammad, John Allen
...Now it is the two vagabond buddies, arrested with the stolen Bushmaster rifle they claim to have found, who seem caught "like a duck...Evidence whose relevance jurors must decide includes the stolen Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle used in the killings, and the nearly identical...
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A TIGHT NOOSE; Sniper Suspects' Bid for Attention Helped Investigators Complete a Puzzle
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 27, 2002
...August for $250, was a .223-caliber Bushmaster XM15 rifle with telescopic sights that...into the barrel of the seized rifle, a Bushmaster XM15. The highly rated civilian rifle...after a military mainstay, is made by Bushmaster Firearms of Windham, Maine. The manufacturers...
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Muhammad Introduced Malvo as Sniper; Ex-Army Buddy Testifies
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 8, 2003
Subjects: Malvo, John Lee, Muhammad, John Allen
...Mr. Muhammad tried several times to make a silencer for a Bushmaster rifle he had acquired over the summer last year. "Imagine...in which Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo were arrested with the Bushmaster rifle on Oct. 24, 2002. On Thursday, Prince William County...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bushmaster  - 5 results

 
 
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Bushmaster
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUSHMASTER large venomous snake, Lachesis muta, of Central America and N South America. It is a member of the pit viper...to 12 ft (2.5 5.5 m). It is gray and brown, with a diamond pattern. Unlike most pit vipers, which bear live young, the bushmaster lays eggs. It is classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae...
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Fer-De-Lance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...highly poisonous snake, Bothrops atrox, found in tropical South America and the West Indies. A pit viper , related to the bushmaster and the rattlesnake, it has heat-sensitive organs on the head for detecting its warm-blooded prey. Usually about 5 to 6 ft...
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Pit Viper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...found in North, Central, and N South America. Other New World forms are the fer-de-lance (genus Bothrops ) and the bushmaster (genus Lachesis ). The genus Ancistrodon includes the copperhead and water moccasin , as well as about a dozen Asian...
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Viper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The pit vipers of the Americas, including the rattlesnake , copperhead , water moccasin , fer-de-lance , and bushmaster , are classified in a separate family. Vipers are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia...
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Snake , in Zoology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...belong to the pit viper family; these include the copperhead , water moccasin , rattlesnake , fer-de-lance, and bushmaster . Venomous Old World snakes are the true vipers , including the adder and the asp , and members of the cobra family, including...


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