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bull snake

British  

noun

  1. Also called: gopher snake. any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis , typically having yellow and brown markings

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By our last day in the park, we’d seen many of the usual suspects, plus a bull snake, a mama mule deer with twins, goldfinches and a turkey.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015

Among her first specimens, the Chicago-born folk dancer imported from the U.S. an innocuous reptile quartet consisting of an emerald-green tree boa, a king snake, an African ball python and a bull snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sighting a bull snake that peered down at him from its crevasse, both of them smiled and one amiably winked.

From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance

The rattlesnake, copperhead snake, moccasin snake, bull snake, and the various snakes usually found in the Atlantic states are here.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

I knew you had good blood in your veins even when I saw you kill that bull snake.

From A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter

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