nonvenomous
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Today Pyle's group has more than 176,000 members eagerly exchanging information about the region's venomous rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths and coral snakes, as well as its nonvenomous rat snakes and water snakes, among other harmless species.
From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2022
According to the Observer, the snake was identified as a nonvenomous brown water snake by the North Carolina Zoo.
From Fox News • Jun. 6, 2019
They are nonvenomous, excellent mouse catchers, and they are illegal to kill in Iowa.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2018
He had nonchalantly plucked it off its perch and it now rests in his palm, looking as sedate and nonvenomous as a spider the size of an adult’s palm can look.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2016
One of the workers “screamed his head off” when a blue racer, a nonvenomous snake, wrapped around the man’s leg.
From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2016
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