LYRE SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lyre snake mean? 

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

1. mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYRE SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lyre 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 "lyre snake"):

Sonoran lyre snake; Trimorphodon lambda (of desert regions of southwestern North America)

Holonyms ("lyre snake" is a member of...):

genus Trimorphodon; Trimorphodon (lyre snakes)