carpet snake

carpet snake
noun
Australian python with a variegated pattern on its back
• Hypernyms: ↑python

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noun
Etymology: perhaps so called from its variegated coloring
1. : a rather large Australian constricting snake (Python variegatus or spilotes) chiefly pale brown with a mottled pattern — see diamond snake
2. in Tasmania : a pale form of the tiger snake
3. : a common Indian wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus)

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a large, nonvenomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, having a variegated pattern on its back, often used to control rats and mice in barns and silos.
[1860-65]

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carpet snake or carpet python noun
A variegated python of Australia (Morelia variegata)
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Main Entry: ↑carpet

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carpet snake,
a python of Australia having a variegated skin: »

An enormous carpet snake…was found to measure 12 feet 6 inches in length (Glasgow Herald).


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  • Carpet snake — may refer to:* Morelia spilota variegata , a.k.a. the Northwestern carpet python, a harmless python subspecies found in New Guinea and Australia. * Pituophis melanoleucus , a.k.a. the pine snake, a harmless colubrid species found in North America …   Wikipedia

  • carpet snake — a large, nonvenomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, having a variegated pattern on its back, often used to control rats and mice in barns and silos. [1860 65] * * * …   Universalium

  • carpet snake — /ˈkapət sneɪk / (say kahpuht snayk) noun a large, non venomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, with a particoloured pattern on its skin, often used in silos and barns to control rodent pests …  

  • Carpet — Car pet (k[aum]r p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo s fruit, E.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Carpet knight — Carpet Car pet (k[aum]r p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo s fruit, E.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Carpet moth — Carpet Car pet (k[aum]r p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo s fruit, E.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Carpet sweeper — Carpet Car pet (k[aum]r p[e^]t), n. [OF. carpite rug, soft of cloth, F. carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (cf. It. carpita rug, blanket), LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card (wool); cf. Gr. karpo s fruit, E.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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