rat snake
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Noun
rat snake (plural rat snakes)
- 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.
- Synonym: chicken snake
Derived terms
- Baja California rat snake (Bogertophis rosaliae)
- beauty rat snake (Elaphe taeniura)
- black rat snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis)
- Dione's rat snake (Elaphe dione)
- eastern ratsnake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis)
- European rat snake, European ratsnake (Zamenis situla)
- gray rat snake, grey rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides)
- Gray's rat snake (Platyceps ventromaculatus)
- Great Plains rat snake (Pantherophis emoryi)
- Hardwicke's rat snake (Platyceps ventromaculatus)
- Indian rat snake (Ptyas mucosa)
- Japanese rat snake (Elaphe climacophora)
- Mandarin rat snake (Euprepiophis mandarinus)
- Oriental rat snake (Ptyas mucosa)
- Persian rat snake (Zamenis persicus)
- Philippine rat snake (Coelognathus erythrurus)
- red rat snake (Pantherophis guttatus)
- rhicoceros rat snake, rhino rat snake (Gonyosoma boulengeri)
- steppe rat snake, steppes rat snake (Elaphe dione)
- Texas rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus lindheimeri)
- Trans-Pecos rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis)
- western rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus)
- yellow-red rat snake (Pseudelaphe flavirufa)
Translations
References
- “rat snake”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “* ratsnake”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
rat snake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Colubridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Colubridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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