king snake
English Thesaurus
1. any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | colubrid, colubrid snake, |
| definition | : | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | common kingsnake, lampropeltis getulus, |
| definition | : | widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | checkered adder, house snake, lampropeltis triangulum, milk adder, milk snake, |
| definition | : | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus lampropeltis, lampropeltis, |
| definition | : | king snakes and milk snakes (noun.animal) |
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