A large harmless snake, Coluber guttatus, common in the southern United States.

Any of various dark-coloured snakes; esp. (a) U.S. either of two harmless colubrids, the racer (Coluber constrictor) and the rat snake (Elaphe obs…

any of several North American colubrid snakes having colourful bands or stripes; esp. the mud snake Farancia abacura; cf. sense 2.

A genus of harmless snakes, typical of, and formerly coextensive with, the family Colubridæ; exemplified in Britain by the common Ringed Snake…

The copperhead snake, Agkistrodon contortrix (family Viperidae), of North America.

A wampum snake (wampum snake n. at compounds 2). Obsolete. rare.