hoop snake

/hup sneɪk/
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Other forms: hoop snakes

Definitions of hoop snake
  1. noun
    any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
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    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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