carpet snake

noun

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.

carpet snake

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

First recorded in 1860–65

Bat would marry Carpet Snake, and their children would, by class name, be Cats.

The largest of them is known as the carpet snake, and the specimen that we saw was about ten feet long.

Advancing cautiously along it, she came across a huge carpet snake coiled "all a same rope alonga boat."

Brown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly.

A famous python is the six-foot, tree-dwelling carpet snake of Australia, black, beautifully marked with a pattern of yellow dots.

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