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    WHIP-SNAKE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tailsplay

    Synonyms:

    whip-snake; whip snake; whipsnake

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("whip-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 "whip-snake"):

    coachwhip; coachwhip snake; Masticophis flagellum (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)

    Holonyms ("whip-snake" is a member of...):

    genus Masticophis; Masticophis (whip snakes)

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