carpet snake
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
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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 Secret of the Totem | Andrew LangThe 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 KnoxAdvancing cautiously along it, she came across a huge carpet snake coiled "all a same rope alonga boat."
Tropic Days | E. J. BanfieldBrown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia | Ludwig LeichhardtA famous python is the six-foot, tree-dwelling carpet snake of Australia, black, beautifully marked with a pattern of yellow dots.
Zoology: The Science of Animal Life | Ernest Ingersoll
British Dictionary definitions for carpet snake
a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
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