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water snake

NOUN
  1. any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water

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  • Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
  • The three of us watched a long water snake glide in a broad oval around the pond.
  • Notice the chainlike pattern on the back of the diamond-backed water snake at top. SeMissourian.com Headlines
  • The cottonmouth can be confused with the water snake. Houston Chronicle
  • Reptiles include water snakes, Indian python Python molurus (V), banded krait Bungarus fasciatus, green rat snake Zaocys nigromarginatus, turtles (Lissemys punctatus, Trionyx gangeticus, Kachuga tectum and Hardella thurgi) and monitor lizard Varanus sp. Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
  • She walked along the banks of the lake, watching a water snake slither in the shallows.
  • In their native habitat, predators such as large water snakes, alligators, and snapping turtles keep adult bullfrogs in check, while fish slurp tadpoles.
  • It's because of birds that I know the difference between a sugar maple and a red maple, a diamondback water snake and a cottonmouth, an American lady and a painted lady.
  • There were water snakes in the bottomland, rattlesnakes wedged between the rocks of wooden areas, and copperheads all over the place - especially in the shade under bushes and tobacco plants.
  • This lake had evidently been in former times the course of the river: its surface was much covered with aquatic plants, amongst which were nelumbium luteum and hydropeltis purpurea: on the broad leaves of the former a great number of water snakes were basking, which on my approach darted into the water. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811
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