NOUN | animal | gopher snake, indigo snake, Drymarchon corais | large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows |
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animal | gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows |
Meaning | large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico. | |
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Synonyms | indigo snake, Drymarchon corais | |
Narrower | eastern indigo snake, Drymarchon corais couperi | A variety of indigo snake |
Broader | colubrid snake, colubrid | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
Meaning | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows. | |
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Synonym | Pituophis melanoleucus | |
Broader | bull snake, bull-snake | Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
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