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black snake en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Any species of Pseudechis, a genus of Australian snakes.
2. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Crotalus oreganus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
3. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
4. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous North and Central American species of snake.
5. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Pantherophis alleghaniensis, a North American colubrid species of snake.
6. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Pantherophis obsoletus, a North American colubrid species of snake.
7. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour: ▸ Pantherophis spiloides, a North American colubrid species of snake.
8. A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction.
9. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of blacksnake (“whip”).
   alt of blacksnake
   • His punishment was fixed at thirty-nine lashes with a black snake whip […] 1914, John F. Merry, History of Delaware County, Iowa, and Its People, page 203:
   • All at once I saw a strange man coming across the diamond with a black snake whip in his hand. 1907, Elbert Hubbard, Harry Persons Taber, The Philistine, page 46:

Forms

Relateds

Pharaoh's serpent

Synonyms

snake

Translations (4)

wyi gulunung (Any species of Pseudechis) · wyi dharrande (Any species of Pseudechis) · yxg bui (Any species of Pseudechis) · chr ᎦᎴᎩ (Any species of Pantherophis)