colubrid
English Thesaurus
1. mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | ophidian, serpent, snake, |
| definition | : | limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hoop snake, |
| definition | : | any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hognose snake, puff adder, sand viper, |
| definition | : | harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | leaf-nosed snake, |
| definition | : | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | grass snake, green snake, |
| definition | : | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | green snake, |
| definition | : | any of numerous African colubrid snakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | racer, |
| definition | : | slender fast-moving North American snakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | rat snake, |
| definition | : | any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | arizona elegans, glossy snake, |
| definition | : | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bull snake, bull-snake, |
| definition | : | any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | king snake, kingsnake, |
| definition | : | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | garter snake, grass snake, |
| definition | : | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lined snake, tropidoclonion lineatum, |
| definition | : | secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ground snake, sonora semiannulata, |
| definition | : | small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | water snake, |
| definition | : | any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sand snake, |
| definition | : | small North American burrowing snake (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black-headed snake, |
| definition | : | small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | vine snake, |
| definition | : | slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lyre snake, |
| definition | : | mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America (noun.animal) |
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