| 单词 | tiger-snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmastiger-snake tiger-snake n. (a) a venomous Australian snake, of the elapid genus Notechis, esp. N. scutatus; in Tasmania also called carpet-snake; (b) a slightly venomous southern African colubrid snake of the genus Telescopus, esp. T. semiannulatus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > miscellaneous types of grey snake1703 garter-snake1775 boomslang1793 scarlet snake1842 blunt head1869 tiger-snake1869 house snake1870 ground-snake1885 lycodont1887 mole snake1893 sling-snake1895 file snake1912 mussurana1914 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > member of genus Notechis (tiger-snake) brown-banded snake1869 tiger-snake1869 tiger1895 1869 G. Krefft Snakes Austral. 55 The large-scaled snake..is confounded, in Victoria in particular, with the Tiger or Brown-banded Snake (Hoplocephalus curtus). 1874 M. K. Beveridge Lost Life 50 [He] eyed me as a tiger snake The bull-frog or the fieldmouse eyes. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 37/2 The tiger-snake reaches the length of eight, or occasionally even ten feet. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 12/1 The venom of the tiger-snake is fourteen times more deadly than that of the black snake. 1910 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. iii. 54 Tiger Snake... Average length 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches. 1941 K. Tennant Battlers xviii. 193 The driver of the car..very efficiently despatched a large tiger snake. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxvi. 330 The tiger snake..is a yellowish snake spotted with brown. 1966 Southerly 26 109 A fisherman had been bitten by a tigersnake there and had died. 1974 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. X. 504/1 Tiger-snake..is conspicuously marked throughout its length with alternate black and yellow to reddish brown cross-bands. < as lemmas |
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