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RAT SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rat snake mean? 

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

1. any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RAT SNAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("rat 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 "rat snake"):

corn snake; Elaphe guttata; red rat snake (large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms)

black rat snake; blacksnake; Elaphe obsoleta; mountain blacksnake; pilot blacksnake (large harmless shiny black North American snake)

chicken snake (large North American snake)

Indian rat snake; Ptyas mucosus (enter buildings in pursuit of prey)


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