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BULL-SNAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bull-snake mean?
• BULL-SNAKE (noun)
The noun BULL-SNAKE has 1 sense:
1. any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
Familiarity information: BULL-SNAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bull-snake; bull snake
Hypernyms ("bull-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 "bull-snake"):
gopher snake; Pituophis melanoleucus (bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows)
pine snake (any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods; now threatened)
Holonyms ("bull-snake" is a member of...):
genus Pituophis; Pituophis (bull snakes)
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