GOPHER SNAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gopher snake mean?
• GOPHER SNAKE (noun)
The noun GOPHER SNAKE has 2 senses:
1. large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
2. bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
Familiarity information: GOPHER SNAKE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GOPHER SNAKE (noun)
Meaning:
Large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Drymarchon corais; gopher snake; indigo snake
Hypernyms ("gopher 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 "gopher snake"):
Drymarchon corais couperi; eastern indigo snake (a variety of indigo snake)
Meaning:
Bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Pituophis melanoleucus; gopher snake
Hypernyms ("gopher snake" is a kind of...):
bull snake; bull-snake (any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes)