cerastes.

/suh-ras-teez/US // səˈræs tiz //UK // (səˈræstiːz) //

陶瓷,废物,废物利用,大蒜

Definitions

1.
plural ce·ras·tes.
- ›any of several small vipers of the genus Cerastes, including the horned viper, that have a sideways looping motion like that of a sidewinder and inhabit deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia.

He is called the cerastes, and is venomous, I believe, though not one of the worst kinds of poisonous snakes.
In fine, madam, if examples can soothe your grief, remember that Venus changed Cerastes into an ox.
At a relatively late period other snakes were adopted as surrogates of the cobra and Cerastes.
The cerastes is also employed occasionally by the snake-charmers.
The name Cerastes, or horned, has been given to it on account of these projections.