WHIP-SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whip-snake mean? 

• WHIP-SNAKE (noun)
  The noun WHIP-SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHIP-SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

whip-snake; whip snake; whipsnake

Hypernyms ("whip-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 "whip-snake"):

coachwhip; coachwhip snake; Masticophis flagellum (a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip)

California whipsnake; Masticophis lateralis; striped racer (a whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides)

Masticophis bilineatus; Sonoran whipsnake (both terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest)

Holonyms ("whip-snake" is a member of...):

genus Masticophis; Masticophis (whip snakes)