Library / English Dictionary

GENUS OPHEODRYS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American green snakes

Synonyms:

genus Opheodrys; Opheodrys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Opheodrys" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Opheodrys"):

grass snake; green snake (either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color)

Holonyms ("genus Opheodrys" is a member of...):

Colubridae; family Colubridae (nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species)

Credits