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lyre snake

DEFINITIONS OF: lyre snake

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n mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America

Types:
Sonoran lyre snake, Trimorphodon lambda
of desert regions of southwestern North America
Type of:
colubrid, colubrid snake
mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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