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tree snake

British  

noun

  1. any of various slender arboreal colubrid snakes of the genera Chlorophis ( green tree snakes ), Chrysopelea ( golden tree snakes ), etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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When the team analyzed the samples in Krabbenhoft's laboratory, they identified more than 19,000 structural variants in the brown tree snake genome.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

A recent study shows Burmese python mouths can stretch four times wider than their skulls, creating a gaping maw four to six times bigger than that of a similarly sized brown tree snake.

From Scientific American Dec. 7, 2022

Fortunately, the snake turned out to be a common tree snake, which are not considered dangerous to humans.

From Fox News Jul. 1, 2021

The brown tree snake is adept at exploiting human transportation as a means to migrate; one was even found on an aircraft arriving in Corpus Christi, Texas.

From Textbooks Sep. 6, 2018

We wonder what were its feelings on finding that the ladder had been removed, and that an ascent of the smooth trunk of the sapucaya was no longer possible, even to a tree snake!

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne

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