BULL SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bull snake mean? 

• BULL SNAKE (noun)
  The noun BULL SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes

  Familiarity information: BULL SNAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULL SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bull-snake; bull snake

Hypernyms ("bull 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 "bull snake"):

gopher snake; Pituophis melanoleucus (bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows)

pine snake (any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods; now threatened)

Holonyms ("bull snake" is a member of...):

genus Pituophis; Pituophis (bull snakes)