Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wampum-snake, Farancia abacura. See
Farancia . - noun The bull-snake or pine-snake of the central United States, Pityophis melanoleucus, a large species marked with black and white.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A harmless snake (
Farancia abacura ), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A harmless
snake , Farancia abacura, found in the southernUnited States . The colour is bluish-black above, red below.
Etymologies
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horn + snake
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Examples
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With a frantic effort he spurned it from him; all in the same instant a blaze of lightning discovered the maimed form and black and red markings of a "bastard hornsnake," and with one piercing wail of despair, that was drowned in the shriek of the wind and roar of the thunder, he fell.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884
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