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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Example Sentences

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

The bull snake is said to grow to an enormous size, and is a kind of North American python or boa.

From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley

Victor Burleigh stood on the stone where four years ago the bull snake had stretched itself in the lazy sunshine.

From A Master's Degree by McCarter, Margaret Hill

A bull snake, big and ugly, had crawled half out of the burned grasses of the slope and stretched itself lazily in the sunshine along the warm stone.

From A Master's Degree by McCarter, Margaret Hill