whip snake (redirected from whip snakes)

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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

whip snake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails whip-snake, whipsnake colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes genus Masticophis, Masticophis - whip 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