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HOOP SNAKE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hoop snake" is a kind of...):
colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)