carpet snake

American  

noun

1. a large, nonvenomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, having a variegated pattern on its back, often used to control rats and mice in barns and silos.

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carpet snake British  

noun

1. a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back

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Etymology

Origin of carpet snake

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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

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.

The two little dogs were changed into dayall minyah, a very small kind of carpet snake, non-poisonous, for these two little dogs had never bitten the blacks as the other dogs had done.

From Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

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.

I know the swagsmen, and the sundowners too, often kill the carpet snake, and roast and eat it when they have no other sort of fresh meat.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon