colubrid
Noun
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Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes (synset 101730287)
subtypes:
- hoop snake - any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
- carphophis amoenus, thunder snake, worm snake - small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States
- ring snake, ring-necked snake, ringneck snake - any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck
- hognose snake, puff adder, sand viper - harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed
- leaf-nosed snake - any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America
- grass snake, green snake - either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color
- green snake - any of numerous African colubrid snakes
- racer - slender fast-moving North American snakes
- whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
- rat snake - any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia
- arizona elegans, glossy snake - nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales
- bull snake, bull-snake - any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
- king snake, kingsnake - any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals
- garter snake, grass snake - any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes
- lined snake, tropidoclonion lineatum - secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States
- ground snake, sonora semiannulata - small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America
- eastern ground snake, haldea striatula, potamophis striatula - in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America
- water snake - any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water
- red-bellied snake, storeria occipitamaculata - harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States
- sand snake - small North American burrowing snake
- black-headed snake - small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina
- vine snake - slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia
- lyre snake - mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America
- hypsiglena torquata, night snake - nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico
- drymarchon corais, gopher snake, indigo snake - large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
belongs to: colubridae, family colubridae - nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living speciessame as: colubrid snake
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