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Green snake   /grin sneɪk/   Listen
Green snake

noun
1.
Any of numerous African colubrid snakes.
2.
Either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color.  Synonym: grass snake.



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"Green snake" Quotes from Famous Books



... the brightest grass-green—while, like the rest of its family, perfectly harmless—the green snake is a great favourite with the Brazilians; and as it is easily tamed, young girls may often be seen carrying it about, winding it round their throats or wrists, forming it into living necklaces or bracelets. It lives in trees, among the green foliage, over which ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

... its harvest with a joyous face, but the rubber vine, like a dark green snake, fearful of death, ...
— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... on the island is a very vivid and beautiful green snake, which is exceedingly abundant. Yesterday, while catching grasshoppers for fish-bait, I nearly griped one in my hand; indeed, I rather think I did gripe it. The snake was as much startled as myself, and, in its fright, stood an instant on its tail, before it recovered presence ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... tasted dinner,—nay, it was very certain he had not breakfasted either—and must have been very hungry indeed to have attempted preying upon a blood-snake full four feet long—for, as is well-known, his usual prey is the locust, the chameleon, and the little green snake (Coluber aestivus). Under every view of the question then, the snake had the advantage of the bird, and would easily outstarve him. Thus, then, the affair would end, if the ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid

... dejected, yet pathetically patient; and, in the strange amber light reflected from a sunset sea, the fringy shadow of a cluster of fern-leaves seemed to quiver over the pale brow and still mouth, and floating raven hair, where the green snake glided with crest erect and forked tongue within an inch of one delicate, pearly ear. The gray stones of the lichen-spotted wall, the graceful sweep of the shrouding drab drapery, whose folds clung to the form and thence swung down from the edge of the ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... were amazed and horrified to see a spotted green snake coiled comfortably up in the pinafore. It didn't appear to like being looked at by them, for it raised its curious heart-shaped head and flicked its little red, forked ...
— A Little Boy Lost • Hudson, W. H.



Words linked to "Green snake" :   genus Opheodrys, Opheodrys aestivus, Chlorophis, colubrid snake, grass snake, rough green snake, Opheodrys, Opheodrys vernalis, genus Chlorophis, smooth green snake, colubrid



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