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milk snake

Any of various nonvenomous king snakes of the species Lampropeltis triangulum ranging from the eastern and central United States south to Ecuador, often having red, black, and yellow or white bands. Also called house snake, milk adder.

[From the claim that it sucks milk from cows.]

milk snake

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a nonvenomous brown-and-grey North American colubrid snake Lampropeltis doliata, related to the king snakes

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milk snake - nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes

checkered adder, house snake, Lampropeltis triangulum, milk adder

king snake, kingsnake - any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals

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