LEAF-NOSED SNAKE

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Meaning:

Any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("leaf-nosed snake" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("leaf-nosed snake" is a member of...):

genus Phyllorhynchus; Phyllorhynchus (leaf-nosed snakes)

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