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• a variation of bullsnake.

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

Gertie turned white, but Chicken Little encouraged her by starting toward the monster, which was indeed a huge bull snake fully five feet long, as Ernest and Sherm found by actual measurement that evening.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

As for the writer, she sat on a neighboring housetop, well out of the way of rattlers, red racers, rabbit snakes, and even the harmless but fearsome-looking bull snake from 3 to 5 feet long.

From The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett

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