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单词 pilot snake
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pilot snaken.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪlət sneɪk/, U.S. /ˈpaɪlət ˌsneɪk/
Forms: see pilot n. and snake n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pilot n., snake n.
Etymology: < pilot n. + snake n. With sense 1 compare earlier pilot n. 4a; on the origin of the name compare quot. 1890 at sense 1, and quot. 1782 at pilot n. 4a. With sense 2b compare earlier pilot black-snake n.
U.S.
1. The copperhead snake, Agkistrodon contortrix (family Viperidae), of North America.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus or member of genus Coluber
corn-snake1676
blacksnake1694
wampum snake1737
coluber1754
pilot snake1793
wampum1819
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > genus Agkistrodon > agkistrodon contortix (copperhead)
copper-belly1743
copper-snake1765
copperhead1775
pilot1782
copperhead snake1788
pilot snake1793
chunk-head1880
1793 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 p. xx [The poor-Robins-plaintain is] said to frustrate the bite both of the rattle snake, and of his supposed precursor the pilote-snake.
1859 A. De Puy Van Buren Jottings Year's Sojourn South xvii. 197 There are many kinds of snakes in this part of the South. The most dreaded are the rattle-snake, moccasin and the pilot-snake, that gets so full of poison in the fall that it grows blind.
1890 Cent. Mag. Aug. 615/2 I killed two large snakes called the ‘pilot-snake’, from the fact that they are generally found in the vicinity of rattlesnakes.
1956 L. M. Klauber Rattlesnakes II. xviii. 1244 Another phase of the myth is that pilot snakes are crosses between rattlesnakes and bull snakes.
2003 Herald (Rock Hill, S. Carolina) 19 Jan. 3 Someone yelled ‘Pilot snake!’.. Pilot was what we use[d] to call copperhead snakes.
2.
a. Either of two colubrid snakes, the pine snake ( Pituophis melanoleucus) and the black racer ( Coluber constrictor).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Pituophis (pine-snake)
horn-snake1694
bull-snake1784
pine snake1791
pilot snake1842
1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iii. 36 The Black Snake is a bold..and untameable animal... In various parts of the State they have the popular names of Racer, Pilot and Black Snake.
1853 R. B. Marcy & G. B. McClellan Explor. Red River (U. S. War Dept.) (1854) 196 The names of Bull, Pine, and Pilot snake are commonly given to different species of this genus [sc.Pituophis].
1981 N. P. Hardeman Shucks, Shocks, & Hominy Blocks 65 Here a mole and there a field mouse, and occasionally a stunned, writhing six-foot ‘pilot’ snake (black snake).
b. Any of several rat snakes (genus Elaphe), spec. the black rat snake, E. obsoleta, a large constricting snake of eastern North America (also called pilot black-snake).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Elaphe (rat-snake)
chicken snake1698
Aesculapian1763
house snake1807
rat snake1818
pilot snake1854
fox-snake1857
1854 B. L. C. Wailes Rep. Agric. & Geol. Mississippi 329 Scotophis guttatus. Black pilot snake.
1876 D. S. Jordan Man. Vertebr. Northern U.S. 178 Coluber... C. obsoletus, Say. Pilot Snake. Racer. Lustrous black.
1908 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 21 74 Coluber spiloides... Texas Pilot Snake. Abundant wherever there are wooded tracts.
1928 Contrib. Baylor Univ. Mus. 16 15 Elaphe obsoleta confinis... The Gray Pilot Snake is abundant throughout eastern Texas.
1999 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 18 July c12 The black rat is sometimes called the pilot snake, based on the fallacy that it leads other snakes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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