GREEN SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green snake mean? 

• GREEN SNAKE (noun)
  The noun GREEN SNAKE has 2 senses:

1. any of numerous African colubrid snakes

2. either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color

  Familiarity information: GREEN SNAKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous African colubrid snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("green snake" is a kind of...):

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

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

Chlorophis; genus Chlorophis (African green snakes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grass snake; green snake

Hypernyms ("green 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 "green snake"):

Opheodrys vernalis; smooth green snake (of western and central United States)

Opheodrys aestivus; rough green snake (of southern and eastern United States)

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

genus Opheodrys; Opheodrys (North American green snakes)

 Context examples 

When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)