Moccasin Snake
Cenchris piscivorus, of the family Crotalidæ, sometimes called the water viper, from its frequenting marshy places. It is a fish- MOCCASIN SNAKE eating snake. Habitat, North Carolina, the country to the S. and across to the Rocky Mountains. Also the name is sometimes applied to the copperhead snake. Both these reptiles are extremely poisonous.
MOCHA (mō'hä), a seaport, and once the capital of Yemen, in Arabia; on the Red Sea, 130 miles W. N. W. of Aden.
From early in the 16th century till the middle of the 17th Mocha was the port from which the coffee of Yemen was principally exported; hence called Mocha coffee. It is now an unimportant place.