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Snakes — excellent specimens! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rattlers

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This might be a double definition.

'snakes' is the first definition.
(rattler is a kind of snake)

'excellent specimens' is the second definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for rattlers that I've seen is " snakes".)

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