单词 | king snake |
释义 | king snake (once / 203782 pages) n WORD FAMILY king snake: king snakes USAGE EXAMPLESAnd then there are the snakes: king snakes, copperheads, banded water snakes and cottonmouths, which also swim. Los Angeles Times(Aug 21, 2016) Krysko has studied the behavior—called plaiting combat—among king snakes in Florida, making him the first scientist to report the behavior in the species. National Geographic(May 24, 2016) Visual mimicry, exemplified by harmless king snakes that resemble venomous coral snakes, is well known to animal behaviorists, but vocal mimicry has remained more mysterious. Scientific American(Sep 02, 2015) n any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals Syn|Hypo|Hyper kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus, common kingsnake widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands Lampropeltis triangulum, checkered adder, house snake, milk adder, milk snakenonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes colubrid, colubrid snake mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
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