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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several slender nonvenomous New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, having a long tail that resembles a whip.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of various serpents of long, slender form, likened to that of a whip-lash.
  • noun An Australian poisonous snake, Hoplocephalus flagellum, about a foot long.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
  • noun any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
  • noun any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails

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