HOOP SNAKE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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