Noun | 1. | ![]() water snake - any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water Natrix maura, viperine grass snake - a small harmless grass snake |
2. | ring snake - any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes Diadophis, genus Diadophis - a genus of reptiles of the family Colubridae including ringneck snakes |