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Elaphe

noun

North American rat snakes

• Member Holonyms: ↑Colubridae, ↑family Colubridae

• Member Meronyms:

↑corn snake, ↑red rat snake, ↑Elaphe guttata, ↑black rat snake, ↑blacksnake, ↑pilot blacksnake, ↑mountain blacksnake, ↑Elaphe obsoleta, ↑chicken snake

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\\ˈelə(ˌ)fē\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, probably from Greek elaphē deerskin, from elaphos deer — more at elk

: a large genus of colubrid snakes comprising the rat snakes that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere where they are valuable as destroyers of rodents — see corn snake, fox snake, leopard snake

Useful english dictionary. 2012.