carpet snake

American  

noun

1. a large, nonvenomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, having a variegated pattern on its back, often used to control rats and mice in barns and silos.

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carpet snake British  

noun

1. a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back

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Etymology

Origin of carpet snake

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Born in Iran, Daliri studied sculpture in India before migrating to Australia, and has also created a giant carpet snake, which is a tourist attraction in Burdekin.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2020

It's a fool's game though in the dark, for if an old man carpet snake happens to be in your road, and you step on him, well—you'll get hurt!

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

One of them thereupon climbed the tree, and soon a carpet snake, 14 feet 6 inches long and 12 inches in girth, was writhing on the ground.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Advancing cautiously along it, she came across a huge carpet snake coiled "all a same rope alonga boat."

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

I know the swagsmen, and the sundowners too, often kill the carpet snake, and roast and eat it when they have no other sort of fresh meat.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon