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DRYMARCHON CORAIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Drymarchon corais mean?
• DRYMARCHON CORAIS (noun)
The noun DRYMARCHON CORAIS has 1 sense:
1. large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
Familiarity information: DRYMARCHON CORAIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Drymarchon corais; gopher snake; indigo snake
Hypernyms ("Drymarchon corais" 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 "Drymarchon corais"):
Drymarchon corais couperi; eastern indigo snake (a variety of indigo snake)
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