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gopher snake

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gopher snake
n.
See bull snake.
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Noun1.gopher snakegopher snake - large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
Drymarchon corais, indigo snake
colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
Drymarchon corais couperi, eastern indigo snake - a variety of indigo snake
2.gopher snake - bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
Pituophis melanoleucus
bull snake, bull-snake - any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes


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``I've seen more rattlers, gopher snakes and king snakes,'' he said.
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In contrast, the ground squirrel tails didn't warm appreciably during similar taunting of a gopher snake.
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The animals on display also included a barn owl, great horned owl, a gopher snake, an opossum, a gray fox, a red-tailed hawk, and a skunk who was hidden in a barbecue.
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