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    BULL SNAKE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakesplay

    Synonyms:

    bull-snake; bull snake

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("bull snake" is a kind of...):

    colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bull snake"):

    gopher snake; Pituophis melanoleucus (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)

    Holonyms ("bull snake" is a member of...):

    genus Pituophis; Pituophis (bull snakes)

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