moccasin

noun

• 1a soft leather slipper or shoe, strictly one without a separate heel, having the sole turned up on all sides and sewn to the upper in a simple gathered seam, in a style originating among North American Indians.

• 2a venomous American pit viper.

  • Genus Agkistrodon, family Viperidae: several species, in particular the water moccasin (see cottonmouth) and the highland moccasin (see copperhead.)