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BULL-SNAKE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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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