单词 | grass snake |
释义 | > as lemmasgrass snake grass snake n. any of various colubrid snakes; esp. (a) either of the common green snakes of the United States, Opheodrys vernalis and O. aestivus; (b) a common Eurasian snake, Natrix natrix, which is typically greenish-brown or greenish-grey with a yellow collar (also called ringed snake). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Natrix > natrix helvetica (ringed snake) water snake1527 water serpent1530 ringed water snake1668 grass snake1720 ringed snake1776 ring snake1901 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus Opheodrys > opheodrys vernalis (green snake) green snake1699 grass snake1720 1720 D. Neal Hist. New-Eng. II. xiv. 574 The Black-Snake is much longer and swifter of Motion, 'tis of an amphibious Kind, not so venomous as the Rattle-Snake, but more so, than the common Grass-Snakes of several Colours. 1837 Weekly Waterford Chron. 27 May (Suppl.) Sunday morning, a grass snake, two feet and a half long, was taken in Coolmanuck wood..within three miles of Carrick-on-Suir. 1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iii. 40 This innocent and beautiful species [sc. Coluber vernalis], known in this State as the Green or Grass Snake, has long been confounded with the estivus of the Southern States. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast iii. 45 They saw a chicken hawk fighting with a grass snake. 1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside v. xvii. 186 For our remaining four native reptiles—the adder, common lizard, slow worm and grass snake—national data do not exist. 2003 A. Tennant Snakes N. Amer.: Eastern & Central Regions (rev. ed.) 197 Often called ‘grass snake’, emerald-bodied O[pheodrys] aestivus is color-adapted, instead, to the verdant hue of tree leaves. 2017 P. Aylmer Walking in London 60 Although harmless to humans, the grass snake is certainly not harmless to frogs, toads, fish and small rodents. < as lemmas |
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