Meaning | Any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails. |
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Synonyms | whip snake, whipsnake |
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Member of | Masticophis, genus Masticophis | whip snakes |
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Narrower | California whipsnake, striped racer, Masticophis lateralis | A whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides |
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Sonoran whipsnake, Masticophis bilineatus | both terrestrial / terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest |
coachwhip, coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum | A whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico |
Broader | colubrid snake, colubrid | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
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