green snake

green snake

n. Any of several slender, yellow-green nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Opheodrys, such as the grass snake.

green′ snake`

n. any slender, green colubrine snake of the genus Opheodrys, of North America. [1700–10, Amer.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	green snake - any of numerous African colubrid snakescolubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakesChlorophis, genus Chlorophis - African green snakes
	2.	green snake - either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in colorgrass snakecolubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakesgenus Opheodrys, Opheodrys - North American green snakesOpheodrys vernalis, smooth green snake - of western and central United StatesOpheodrys aestivus, rough green snake - of southern and eastern United States