RING-NECKED SNAKE

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Meaning:

Any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck

Synonyms:

ring-necked snake; ring snake; ringneck snake

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ring-necked snake" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("ring-necked snake" is a member of...):

Diadophis; genus Diadophis (a genus of reptiles of the family Colubridae including ringneck snakes)

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