indigo snake

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indigo snake

Any of several bluish-black nonvenomous snakes of the genus Drymarchon found from the southern United States to northern South America.

indigo snake

(Animals) a dark-blue nonvenomous North American colubrid snake, Drymarchon corais couperi

in′digo snake′

a large, harmless, shiny blue-black New World snake, Drymarchon corais.

Also called gopher snake.

[1880–85]

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indigo snake - large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico

Drymarchon corais, gopher 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

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