carpet snake


noun
  1. a large, nonvenomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, having a variegated pattern on its back, often used to control rats and mice in barns and silos.

Origin of carpet snake

1
First recorded in 1860–65

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How to use carpet snake in a sentence

  • Bat would marry carpet snake, and their children would, by class name, be Cats.

  • The largest of them is known as the carpet snake, and the specimen that we saw was about ten feet long.

    The Land of the Kangaroo | Thomas Wallace Knox
  • Advancing cautiously along it, she came across a huge carpet snake coiled "all a same rope alonga boat."

    Tropic Days | E. J. Banfield
  • Brown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly.

  • A famous python is the six-foot, tree-dwelling carpet snake of Australia, black, beautifully marked with a pattern of yellow dots.

British Dictionary definitions for carpet snake

carpet snake

noun
  1. a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back

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