cribon.
/ˈkrʌɪbəʊ//ˈkrɪbəʊ/ A large harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, found in tropical North, South, and Central America and the West Indies; also called gopher snake (s.v. gopher n.1 4) and indigo snake (s.v. indigo n. and adj. Compounds 2).
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1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 78 This snake..has no power against another West Indian snake, almost equally common, namely, the Cribo.
1918 W. H. Hudson Far Away & Long Ago xii. 176 The Cribo of Martinique..kills and swallows the deadly fer-de-lance.
1957 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright Handbk. Snakes U.S. & Canada I. 204 Mexican indigo snake... Other common names: Black gopher snake, blue bull snake, blue gopher snake, corais, cribo.
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