单词 | whip-snake |
释义 | whip-snake (once / 2363863 pages) n WORD FAMILY whip-snake USAGE EXAMPLES"You live in a pretty lonesome spot here, and as the man said to the whip-snake in the spout, 'You ain't easy to get at.'" Lever, Charles James, Luttrell Of Arran—Complete(2011) Volstruis spread out his beautiful wings and swayed from side to side, his beak open and his neck twisting like a whip-snake. Metelerkamp, Sanni, Outa Karel's Stories—South African...(2011) Another snake of the same length is a handsome green whip-snake, graceful in its movements, but ferocious and aggressive in its habits, although quite harmless. Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir, The Heart of Nature—or, The Quest f...(2010) n any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails Syn|Hypo|Hyper whip snake, whipsnake Masticophis flagellum, coachwhip, coachwhip snake a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip California whipsnake, Masticophis lateralis, striped racera whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides Masticophis bilineatus, Sonoran whipsnakeboth terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest colubrid, colubrid snake mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
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