colubrid snake

Thesaurus

Noun

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colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes colubrid ophidian, serpent, snake - limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous Colubridae, family Colubridae - nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species hoop snake - any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake, worm snake - small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States ring-necked snake, ringneck snake, ring snake - any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck hognose snake, puff adder, sand viper - harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed leaf-nosed snake - any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America green snake, grass snake - either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color green snake - any of numerous African colubrid snakes racer - slender fast-moving North American snakes whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails rat snake - any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia Arizona elegans, glossy snake - nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales bull snake, bull-snake - any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes king snake, kingsnake - any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals garter snake, grass snake - any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes lined snake, Tropidoclonion lineatum - secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States ground snake, Sonora semiannulata - small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America eastern ground snake, Haldea striatula, Potamophis striatula - in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America water snake - any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water red-bellied snake, Storeria occipitamaculata - harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States sand snake - small North American burrowing snake black-headed snake - small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina vine snake - slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia lyre snake - mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America Hypsiglena torquata, night snake - nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico Drymarchon corais, gopher snake, indigo snake - large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico