bull-snake

Definitions of bull-snake
  1. noun
    any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
    synonyms: bull snake
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    types:
    Pituophis melanoleucus, gopher snake
    bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
    pine snake
    any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods; now threatened
    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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