indigo snake
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Related to indigo snakes: Drymarchon corais couperi
indigo snake
n.
Any of several bluish-black nonvenomous snakes of the genus Drymarchon found from the southern United States to northern South America.
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indigo snake
n
(Animals) a dark-blue nonvenomous North American colubrid snake, Drymarchon corais couperi
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in′digo snake′
n.
a large, harmless, shiny blue-black New World snake, Drymarchon corais.
Also called gopher snake. [1880–85]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() 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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