brown snake

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noun

Australian any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja

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How to use brown snake in a sentence

At Epidaurus the god was supposed to manifest himself in the form of a yellowish brown snake, abundant in that neighbourhood.
Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore|Charles Hardwick
The harmless snakes are the brown snake, the common banded moccasin, the black mountain snake, the green snake.
How Girls Can Help Their Country|Juliette Low
The end of the trunk was lying along my bough like a huge brown snake and creeping up, up, up.
The Ivory Child|H. Rider Haggard
The sun poured its level rays upon them, and a little brown snake, with a litter of young, crawled from beneath the log.
Bluebell|Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

The black snake and the brown snake are the most common of the deadly serpents.
The Land of the Kangaroo|Thomas Wallace Knox