Sand viper may refer to:
- Vipera ammodytes, a.k.a. the nose-horned viper, a venomous species found in Europe through to the Balkans and parts of the Middle East.
- Cerastes vipera, a.k.a. the Avicenna viper, a venomous species found in the deserts of North Africa and the Sinai Peninsula.
- Heterodon, a.k.a. hog-nosed snakes, a genus of harmless colubrid species found in North America.
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Famous quotes containing the word sand:
“This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)