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RAT SNAKE

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia

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

• RAT SNAKE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("rat 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 "rat snake"):

corn snake; Elaphe guttata; red rat snake (large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms)

black rat snake; blacksnake; Elaphe obsoleta; mountain blacksnake; pilot blacksnake (large harmless shiny black North American snake)

chicken snake (large North American snake)

Indian rat snake; Ptyas mucosus (enter buildings in pursuit of prey)

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