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GROUND SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground snake mean? 

GROUND SNAKE (noun)
  The noun GROUND SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North Americaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GROUND SNAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ground snake; Sonora semiannulata

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

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

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

genus Sonora; Sonora (ground snakes)


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