colubrid snake

/ˌkɑləbrəd sneɪk/

Other forms: colubrid snakes

Definitions of colubrid snake

1. noun

   mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
   synonyms: colubrid

   types:

   hoop snake

   any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop

   Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake, worm snake

   small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States

   ring snake, ring-necked snake, ringneck snake

   any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck

   hognose snake, puff adder, sand viper

   harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed

   leaf-nosed snake

   any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America

   grass snake, green snake

   either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color

   green snake

   any of numerous African colubrid snakes

   racer

   slender fast-moving North American snakes

   whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnake

   any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails

   rat snake

   any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia

   Arizona elegans, glossy snake

   nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales

   bull snake, bull-snake

   any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes

   king snake, kingsnake

   any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals

   garter snake, grass snake

   a small, nonvenomous snake with stripes, common in North and Central America

   Tropidoclonion lineatum, lined snake

   secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States

   Sonora semiannulata, ground snake

   small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America

   Haldea striatula, Potamophis striatula, eastern ground snake

   in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America

   water snake

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

   Storeria occipitamaculata, red-bellied snake

   harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States

   sand snake

   small North American burrowing snake

   black-headed snake

   small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina

   vine snake

   slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia

   lyre snake

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

   Hypsiglena torquata, night snake

   nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico

   Drymarchon corais, gopher snake, indigo snake

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

   Opheodrys vernalis, smooth green snake

   of western and central United States

   Opheodrys aestivus, rough green snake

   of southern and eastern United States

   Coluber constrictor, black racer, blacksnake

   blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet

   Coluber hippocrepis, horseshoe whipsnake

   slender fast-moving Eurasian snake

   Masticophis flagellum, coachwhip, coachwhip snake

   a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip

   California whipsnake, Masticophis lateralis, striped racer

   a whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides

   Masticophis bilineatus, Sonoran whipsnake

   both terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest

   Elaphe guttata, corn snake, red rat snake

   large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms

   Elaphe obsoleta, black rat snake, blacksnake, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake

   large harmless shiny black North American snake

   chicken snake

   large North American snake

   Indian rat snake, Ptyas mucosus

   enter buildings in pursuit of prey

   Pituophis melanoleucus, gopher snake

   bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows

   pine snake

   any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods; now threatened

   Lampropeltis getulus, common kingsnake

   widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands

   Lampropeltis triangulum, checkered adder, house snake, milk adder, milk snake

   nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes

   Thamnophis sirtalis, common garter snake

   a garter snake that is widespread in North America

   Thamnophis sauritus, ribbon snake

   slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places

   Thamnophis proximus, Western ribbon snake

   yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics

   Natrix sipedon, Nerodia sipedon, banded water snake, common water snake

   in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia; western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water

   water moccasin

   any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters

   Natrix natrix, grass snake, ring snake, ringed snake

   harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar; common in England

   Chilomeniscus cinctus, banded sand snake

   a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes

   Sonoran lyre snake, Trimorphodon lambda

   of desert regions of southwestern North America

   Drymarchon corais couperi, eastern indigo snake

   a variety of indigo snake

   type of:

   ophidian, serpent, snake

   limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous