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RAT SNAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rat 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 "rat snake"):
corn snake; Elaphe guttata; red rat snake (large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms)
black rat snake; blacksnake; Elaphe obsoleta; mountain blacksnake; pilot blacksnake (large harmless shiny black North American snake)
chicken snake (large North American snake)
Indian rat snake; Ptyas mucosus (enter buildings in pursuit of prey)
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