BLACK RAT SNAKE

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Meaning:

Large harmless shiny black North American snake

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("black rat snake" is a kind of...):

rat snake (any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia)

Holonyms ("black rat snake" is a member of...):

Elaphe; genus Elaphe (North American rat snakes)

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