GOPHER SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gopher snake mean? 

• GOPHER SNAKE (noun)
  The noun GOPHER SNAKE has 2 senses:

1. large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico

2. bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows

  Familiarity information: GOPHER SNAKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOPHER SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Drymarchon corais; gopher snake; indigo snake

Hypernyms ("gopher 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 "gopher snake"):

Drymarchon corais couperi; eastern indigo snake (a variety of indigo snake)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gopher snake; Pituophis melanoleucus

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

bull-snake; bull snake (any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes)