| 单词 | roof-snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroof-snake roof-snake n. (esp. in Asia) a snake that habitually lives or hunts in the roof of a building.Colubrid snakes that frequent roofs include (in southern Asia) the wolf snake, Lycodon aulicus, and (in eastern Asia) the rat snake, Elaphe schrenckii. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of worm-kinc893 slow-wormOE hagworm?c1475 salpege1569 scytale1572 house snake1608 porphyre1608 ellops1667 sea-serpent1672 tree-serpent1731 boyuna1763 whip-snake1774 garter-snake1775 switch-snake1791 argus-snake1802 rat snake1818 skaapsteker1818 sea-snake1827 short-tail1879 roof-snake1884 brown snake1896 herald-snake1910 night snake1918 parrot snake1931 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 215/2 There are few bungalows the thatched roof of which is not the occasional abode of..the sankor, or roof-snake. 1911 W. E. Griffis Unmannerly Tiger 136 One day, a young sparrow that had hardly learned to fly was almost seized, and might have been devoured by the roof-snake. 1975 P. Mayne Friends in High Places i. ii. 31 That is where the roof-snake lives, sir... Out she comes from there and down. < as lemmas |
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