green snake

/grin sneɪk/
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Other forms: green snakes

Definitions of green snake
  1. noun
    either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color
    synonyms: grass snake
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    types:
    Opheodrys vernalis, smooth green snake
    of western and central United States
    Opheodrys aestivus, rough green snake
    of southern and eastern United States
    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
  2. noun
    any of numerous African colubrid snakes
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    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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