blue racer

noun

1. a bluish racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of Ohio to eastern Iowa.

blue racer

noun

1. a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris , of the US

Word History and Origins

Origin of blue racer¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

The "hoop snake" was quite as authentic to us as the blue racer, although no one had actually seen one.

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For the subspecies of racer involved in my field study the widely used vernacular "blue racer" has been adopted in this report.

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On several occasions I have been led to a blue racer by the distressed croaking of a frog that the snake had captured.

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The locale of the present study was near the geographic center of the blue racer's range.

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In the adult blue racer the dorsal color is variable, pale brown or gray, bluish, greenish or slaty.

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