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LINED SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lined snake mean? 

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

1. secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United Statesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LINED SNAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lined snake; Tropidoclonion lineatum

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

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

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

genus Tropidoclonion; Tropidoclonion (lined snakes)


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