WATER SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water snake mean? 

• WATER SNAKE (noun)
  The noun WATER SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("water 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 "water snake"):

banded water snake; common water snake; Natrix sipedon; Nerodia sipedon (in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia; western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water)

water moccasin (any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters)

grass snake; Natrix natrix; ring snake; ringed snake (harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar; common in England)