SAND SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sand snake mean? 

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

1. small North American burrowing snake

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAND SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small North American burrowing snake

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sand 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 "sand snake"):

banded sand snake; Chilomeniscus cinctus (a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it 'swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes)

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

Chilomeniscus; genus Chilomeniscus (sand snakes)