roof-snake
noun
(Especially 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..
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature.
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