noun
any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
• Syn: ↑whip-snake, ↑whip snake
• Hypernyms: ↑colubrid snake, ↑colubrid
• Hyponyms:
↑coachwhip, ↑coachwhip snake, ↑Masticophis flagellum, ↑California whipsnake, ↑striped racer, ↑Masticophis lateralis, ↑Sonoran whipsnake, ↑Masticophis bilineatus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Masticophis, ↑genus Masticophis
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/hwip"snayk', wip"-/, n.
1. any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
2. any of various similar or related snakes.
Also, whip snake.
[1765-75; WHIP + SNAKE]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.