whip-snake

Definitions of whip-snake
  1. noun
    any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails
    synonyms: whip snake, whipsnake
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    types:
    Masticophis flagellum, coachwhip, coachwhip snake
    a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip
    California whipsnake, Masticophis lateralis, striped racer
    a whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides
    Masticophis bilineatus, Sonoran whipsnake
    both terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest
    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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