red-bellied snake

red-bellied snake
noun
harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States (Freq. 1)
Hypernyms: ↑colubrid snake, ↑colubrid
Member Holonyms: ↑Storeria, ↑genus Storeria

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1. : any of several American colubrid snakes with coral or reddish ventral surfaces: as
b. : a woodland snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) of the Mississippi valley and southeast to Florida
2. : an Australian elapid snake (Pseudelaps squamulosus) that is brown or blackish above and salmon-red below and is venomous but not dangerous to man

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