Moccasin may refer to:
Footwear:
- Moccasin (footwear), worn by Native Americans, as well as hunters, traders, and settlers in the frontier regions of North America. The word Moccasin originates from the Algonquian language Powhatan word makasin (cognate to Massachusett mohkisson/mokussin,
- The mascot of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which during the 1960s and 1970s was an anthropomorphized moccasin shoe.
Plants:
- The lady's slipper orchid, which is called the moccasin flower in the United States. Lady Slippers (aka Lady's Slipper, Lady's-slipper, Ladyslipper) is a term used to describe the orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioidea
Snakes:
- Any member of the genus Agkistrodon, a group venomous pitvipers found in North and Central America. Common names: moccasins copperheads cantils Agkistrodon is a Genus of venomous pitvipers found
- Heterodon platirhinos, a non-venomous colubrid found in the United States. Common names eastern hog-nosed snake spreading adder hog-nosed snake more.
Places:
- Moccasin Bend, a location near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, preserves the sites of two major battles of the American
- Moccasin, California, a town. Moccasin, an unincorporated town in Tuolumne County California, is located at the intersection of State Route 49 and State Route 120.
Dictionary
moccasin
-adjective
- (colour) Af a light beige colour, like that of a mocassin.
-noun
- A kind of shoe with low heels, with the top sides stitched upwards.
- A Native North American shoe made of deerskin.
- (colour) A light beige colour, like that of a mocassin.
- Any of several North American snakes of the genus Agkistrodon.
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