whip snake
Britishnoun
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any of several long slender fast-moving nonvenomous snakes of the colubrid genus Coluber, such as C. hippocrepis ( horseshoe whipsnake ) of Eurasia
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any of various other slender nonvenomous snakes, such as Masticophis flagellum ( coachwhip snake ) of the US
Example Sentences
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Around her small neck a whip snake made a tight black coil; it twinkled its quick tiny tongue at Mrs. Gunn and hissed and sneaked away into the darkness among the shoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whip snake, having seized its prey, winds its light and lithe body round its victim, coil upon coil, like the boa and anaconda, and strangles it in its embrace.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
From her description I know now that it was a green whip snake, a very delicate and absolutely harmless snake.
From Free from School by Alvares, Rahul
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