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GREEN SNAKE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

grass snake; green snake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("green snake" is a kind of...):

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green snake"):

Opheodrys vernalis; smooth green snake (of western and central United States)

Opheodrys aestivus; rough green snake (of southern and eastern United States)

Holonyms ("green snake" is a member of...):

genus Opheodrys; Opheodrys (North American green snakes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous African colubrid snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("green snake" is a kind of...):

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

Holonyms ("green snake" is a member of...):

Chlorophis; genus Chlorophis (African green snakes)

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