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GOPHER SNAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
Synonyms:
gopher snake; Pituophis melanoleucus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gopher snake" is a kind of...):
bull-snake; bull snake (any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
Synonyms:
Drymarchon corais; gopher snake; indigo snake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("gopher snake" is a kind of...):
colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gopher snake"):
Drymarchon corais couperi; eastern indigo snake (a variety of indigo snake)
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