The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.
Close to the path a male adder basked on a rock, his triangular markings a shock of modern design against the pale, uniform surface.
A typical adder, one subcomponent of a modern chip, is built from around 30 separate transistors, says Intel's Dr Mayberry.
The puff adder (B. arietans and others) is a large extremely venomous snake found in the semiarid regions of Africa and Arabia.
The puff adder is about 1 to 1.5 metres (3 to 5 feet) long and is coloured gray to dark brown with thin yellow chevrons on its back.
Several species of poisonous snakes abound, including black, brown, and tiger snakes and the death adder; they are not aggressive, however, and loss of human life to snakebite is rare.
The boar, wildcat, jackal, adder, gurza (a venomous snake), scorpion, and, more rarely, the leopard inhabit this region.
Their name derives from the derogatory Ojibwa word Nadouessioux ("Adder" or "Snake"; see also Sidebar: Native American Self-Names).
On the other hand, the common adder, or European viper (Vipera berus), living north of the Arctic Circle in Europe, is the only snake present in the area and lives practically unchallenged in its niche.
The desert death adder (A. pyrrhus) is found only in arid areas of Australia.
Although the distribution of snakes at high latitudes or altitudes is limited, the adder has been found at 3,300 metres (10,000 feet) in the Swiss Alps and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
