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green snake

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green snake
n.
Any of several slender, yellow-green nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Opheodrys, such as the grass snake.
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Noun1.green snakegreen snake - any of numerous African colubrid snakes
colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
Chlorophis, genus Chlorophis - African green snakes
2.green snake - either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color
grass snake
colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
genus Opheodrys, Opheodrys - North American green snakes
Opheodrys vernalis, smooth green snake - of western and central United States
Opheodrys aestivus, rough green snake - of southern and eastern United States


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When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.
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In his huge, hairy hands, a long whip, made of green snakes and black cats' tails twisted together, swished through the air in a dangerous way.
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