carpet snake
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carpet snake
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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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
Brown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
In descending at a sharp angle from the side of a fallen tree, his fore-feet just scraped the end of the tail of a nine-foot carpet snake, whose colouring was vivid and fresh.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
His shout aroused a sleeping boa—not one of the giants of its kind, but a good-sized serpent of the sort known among Australian settlers as the carpet snake.
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.
Not unlike the Australian carpet snake; but quite spoiled as a specimen.”
From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Wood, Stanley L.
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