gopher snake

/ˌgoʊfər ˈsneɪk/
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Other forms: gopher snakes

Definitions of gopher snake
  1. noun
    large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
    synonyms: Drymarchon corais, indigo snake
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    types:
    Drymarchon corais couperi, eastern indigo snake
    a variety of indigo snake
    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
  2. noun
    bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
    synonyms: Pituophis melanoleucus
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    type of:
    bull snake, bull-snake
    any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
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