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gopher snake

DEFINITIONS OF: gopher snake

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n large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico

Synonyms:
Drymarchon corais, indigo snake
Types:
Drymarchon corais couperi, eastern indigo snake
a variety of indigo snake
Type of:
colubrid, colubrid snake
mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

n bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows

Synonyms:
Pituophis melanoleucus
Type of:
bull snake, bull-snake
any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes
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