sand snake

/sænd sneɪk/
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Other forms: sand snakes

Definitions of sand snake
  1. noun
    small North American burrowing snake
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    types:
    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
    type of:
    colubrid, colubrid snake
    mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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