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whip snake
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whip snake
n.
1. Any of several slender nonvenomous New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, having a long tail that resembles a whip.
2. Any of several similar or related snakes.

whip snake
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snakes of the colubrid genus Coluber, such as C. hippocrepis (horseshoe whipsnake) of Eurasia
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various other slender nonvenomous snakes, such as Masticophis flagellum (coachwhip snake) of the US
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Noun1.whip snake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tailswhip snake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum, coachwhip - a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip
California whipsnake, Masticophis lateralis, striped racer - a whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides
Masticophis bilineatus, Sonoran whipsnake - both terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest


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