rainbow snake
noun
1Either of two non-venomous colubrid snakes of the American genus Farancia; especially F. erytrogramma, a large glossy, striped snake frequenting swamps and streams in the south-eastern United States.
2 Australian = rainbow serpent.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Raymond Ditmars (1876–1942).
- death-sick
- death-sickness
- death slide
- deathsman
- death song
- death spiral
- death squad
- death stare
- death-stricken
- death-struck
- death sweat
- death's wound
- death tax
- death throe
- death toll
- death train
- death trance
- deathtrap
- Death Valley
- deathward
- deathwards
- death warrant
- deathwatch beetle
- death wave
- death weight