| has gloss | (noun) mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
colubrid, colubrid snake |
| lexicalization | eng: colubrid snake |
| lexicalization | eng: colubrid |
| subclass of | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
serpent, ophidian, snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
hoop snake |
| has subclass | (noun) small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
thunder snake, Carphophis amoenus, worm snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck
ring-necked snake, ringneck snake, ring snake |
| has subclass | (noun) harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed
sand viper, puff adder, hognose snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America
leaf-nosed snake |
| has subclass | (noun) either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color
green snake, grass snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous African colubrid snakes
green snake |
| has subclass | (noun) slender fast-moving North American snakes
racer |
| has subclass | (noun) any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
whip-snake, whip snake, whipsnake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia
rat snake |
| has subclass | (noun) nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales
Arizona elegans, glossy snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
bull snake, bull-snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals
kingsnake, king snake |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes
grass snake, garter snake |
| has subclass | (noun) secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States
Tropidoclonion lineatum, lined snake |
| has subclass | (noun) small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America
ground snake, Sonora semiannulata |
| has subclass | (noun) in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America
eastern ground snake, Potamophis striatula, Haldea striatula |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water
water snake |
| has subclass | (noun) harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States
Storeria occipitamaculata, red-bellied snake |
| has subclass | (noun) small North American burrowing snake
sand snake |
| has subclass | (noun) small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina
black-headed snake |
| has subclass | (noun) slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia
vine snake |
| has subclass | (noun) mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America
lyre snake |
| has subclass | (noun) nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico
night snake, Hypsiglena torquata |
| has subclass | (noun) large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
indigo snake, Drymarchon corais, gopher snake |