| 单词 | bull-snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbull-snake bull-snake n. U.S. a large North American snake ( Pityophis melanoleucus); the pine-snake. ΘΚΠ 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 1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 27 The bull, the horned and the mockason snakes. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 276 The pine or bull snake is very large. 1817 S. R. Brown Western Wilds 357 Palmetto flatts, fit only for the present occupants, gouffres, salamanders, and bull snakes. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ix. 133 The ‘bull-snake’..an immense thing of four or five feet in length, which gets its name from its blunt head and thick clumsy body. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 239 The bull snake is said to grow to an enormous size, and is a kind of North American python or boa. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights i. xvi. 219 I mind when they catched the great-grandaddy of all the bull-snakes. < as lemmas |
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