noun
mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
• Syn: ↑colubrid
• Hyponyms:
↑hoop snake, ↑thunder snake, ↑worm snake, ↑Carphophis amoenus, ↑ringneck snake, ↑ring-necked snake, ↑ring snake, ↑hognose snake, ↑puff adder, ↑sand viper, ↑leaf-nosed snake, ↑green snake, ↑grass snake, ↑racer, ↑whip-snake, ↑whip snake, ↑whipsnake, ↑rat snake, ↑glossy snake, ↑Arizona elegans, ↑bull snake, ↑bull-snake, ↑king snake, ↑kingsnake, ↑garter snake, ↑lined snake, ↑Tropidoclonion lineatum, ↑ground snake, ↑Sonora semiannulata, ↑eastern ground snake, ↑Potamophis striatula, ↑Haldea striatula, ↑water snake, ↑red-bellied snake, ↑Storeria occipitamaculata, ↑sand snake, ↑black-headed snake, ↑vine snake, ↑lyre snake, ↑night snake, ↑Hypsiglena torquata, ↑indigo snake, ↑gopher snake, ↑Drymarchon corais
• Member Holonyms: ↑Colubridae, ↑family Colubridae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.