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water snake

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water snake
n.
1. Any of various nonvenomous snakes of the genus Natrix, living in or frequenting freshwater streams and ponds.
2. Any of various aquatic or semiaquatic snakes.
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Noun1.water snakewater snake - any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water
colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
banded water snake, common water snake, Natrix sipedon, Nerodia sipedon - in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia; western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water
water moccasin - any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters
grass snake, Natrix natrix, ring snake, ringed snake - harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar; common in England


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They tore it away and thrust it fiercely aside, its undulations resembling those of a water snake.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meliboea and rugged Olizon, these were led by the skilful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oarsmen all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him, for he had been bitten by a poisonous water snake.
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