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HOOP SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoop snake mean? 

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

1. any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoopplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HOOP SNAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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


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