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Moccasin may refer to:

Footwear:

• Moccasin (footwear), worn by Native Americans, as well as hunters, traders, and settlers in the frontier regions of North America
• The mascot of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which during the 1960s and 1970s was an anthropomorphized moccasin shoe

Plants:

• The lady's slipper orchid, called the moccasin flower in the United States

Snakes:

• Any member of the genus Gloydius, a.k.a. Asian moccasins, a group venomous pitvipers found in Asia.
• Any member of the genus Agkistrodon, a group venomous pitvipers found in North and Central America.
• Deinagkistrodon acutus, a.k.a. the Chinese moccasin, a venomous pitviper species found in Southeast Asia.
• Heterodon platirhinos, a.k.a. the eastern hog-nosed snake, a non-venomous colubrid species found in North America.

Places:

• Moccasin Bend, a location near Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Moccasin, California, a town

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