NOUN | animal | whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
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Meaning | Any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails. | |
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Synonyms | whip-snake, whipsnake | |
Member of | Masticophis, genus Masticophis | whip snakes |
Narrower | California whipsnake, striped racer, Masticophis lateralis | A whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides |
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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