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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)

Sense 1

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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)

Sense 2

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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)

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