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bull⋅snake

[bool-sneyk]
–noun
any of several large North American constrictors of the genus Pituophis, as the gopher snake and pine snake, that feed chiefly upon small rodents.
Also, bull snake.


Origin:
1775–85, Americanism; bull 1 + snake
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bull-snake

noun
any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes [syn: bull snake
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