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Definition of: moccasin
(mok′ə·sin) noun
1. A foot covering made of soft leather or buckskin: worn by North American Indians; also, a soft shoe or slipper.
2. A dark-colored, obscurely blotched, venomous snake (genus Agkistrodon) of the southern United States. A. piscivorus is the water moccasin. [<Algonquian mohkisson]
(Average length about 4 feet; largest speciments to 6 feet)
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