a. [f. as prec. + -INE.] Of or belonging to the rattlesnake family.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1950. 344/2. A genus of crotaline serpents.
1882. Miss C. C. Hopley, Snakes, xvii. 312. That the sexes [of rattlesnakes] also understand each other through crotaline eloquence is generally believed.
