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noun
Any of many medium to large colubrid constrictors of a kind found through a great portion of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily feeding on rodents and birds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: chicken snake
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: colubrid snake, colubrid
Narrower terms: corn snake, red rat snake, Elaphe guttata, black rat snake, blacksnake, pilot blacksnake, mountain blacksnake, Elaphe obsoleta, chicken snake, Indian rat snake, Ptyas mucosus
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