| 单词 | file snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfile snake file snake n. a non-poisonous colubrid snake of the genus Mehelya, found in South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > miscellaneous types of grey snake1703 garter-snake1775 boomslang1793 scarlet snake1842 blunt head1869 tiger-snake1869 house snake1870 ground-snake1885 lycodont1887 mole snake1893 sling-snake1895 file snake1912 mussurana1914 1908 Ann. Transvaal Mus. 1 23 Simocephalus capensis (Smith). Three-cornered Snake. Vijlslang.] 1912 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. iv. 96 Three-cornered or File Snakes..although found in most parts of South Africa, seem to be rather rare everywhere. 1931 Discovery Mar. 74/2 A file snake captured a frog. 1962 R. M. Isemonger Snakes Afr. 98 The file snake is generally feared by Africans, who associate its entry to their house with the death of a relative or friend. file snake file snake n. each of three large fish-eating aquatic snakes constituting the genus Acrochordus and family Acrochordidae , native to South-East Asia and Australia and having loose skin and coarse-textured tricuspid scales which give them a file-like appearance; also called wart snake.Formerly placed in the family Colubridae. ΚΠ 1918 Queenslander 23 Feb. 29/2 The so-called ‘file’ snake of the Gulf of Van Diemen, Northern Territory, is one of the favourite foods of the aboriginal natives of the neighbourhood. 1936 Amer. Anthropologist 38 378 No pregnant woman may eat the large water snake popularly known as the Javan file snake (Acrochordus javanicus). 2004 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 42 120 Sharp teeth are one such mechanism, as are the rows of extended ventral scales of marine file snakes (Acrochordidae) that enable the limbless reptiles to hold their slippery prey as they coil around them. < as lemmas |
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