单词 | ringed snake |
释义 | > as lemmasringed snake ringed snake n. any of various snakes with a band or bands of contrasting colour around the body; esp.: (a) the European grass snake, Natrix natrix (family Colubridae); (b) Australian the bandy-bandy, Vermicella annulata (family Elapidae); cf. ring snake n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Natrix > natrix helvetica (ringed snake) water snake1527 water serpent1530 ringed water snake1668 grass snake1720 ringed snake1776 ring snake1901 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iii. 33 Ringed [Snake] ... The snake is the largest of the English serpents. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 620/2 The fourth ventricle..in the ringed snake and lizard is small, but deep. 1865 G. F. Angas Austral. 106 The ringed snake, a small species beautifully banded with black and white, is also poisonous. 1956 T. Y. Harris Naturecraft in Austral. 51 The Bandy Bandy or Ringed Snake..is also venomous but not dangerous. 2003 Copeia No. 2. 417/2 Garth mentored..Roger Thorpe, (Aberdeen University..; intraspecific variation of the ringed snake Natrix natrix). < as lemmas |
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