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BLACK-HEADED SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black-headed snake mean? 

BLACK-HEADED SNAKE (noun)
  The noun BLACK-HEADED SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentinaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK-HEADED SNAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("black-headed snake" is a kind of...):

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

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

genus Tantilla; Tantilla (black-headed snakes)


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