NOUN | animal | bull snake, bull-snake | any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
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Meaning | Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes. | |
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Synonym | bull-snake | |
Member of | Pituophis, genus Pituophis | bull snakes |
Narrower | gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows |
pine snake | Any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods | |
Broader | colubrid snake, colubrid | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
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