| 单词 | ring-neck snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasring-neck snake ring-neck snake n. †(a) South African the rinkhals, Hemachatus haemachatus (obsolete); (b) a small North American colubrid snake, Diadophis punctatus, which has a yellow neck ring and an orange or red belly, occurring in moist habitats; cf. sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Diadophis (ring-neck) ring snake1778 ring-neck1791 ring-neck snake1881 1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. I. Contents iv. 93 Ring-neck snakes. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 197/1 One, Sepedon hæmachates, is named..‘Ring-Neck Snake’, the latter name being, however, often applied also to the cobra. 1957 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright Handbk. of Snakes (1994) I. 163 Western ring-necked snake.., Western ring-neck snake..Diadophis amabilis amabilis. 1995 C. Mattison Encycl. Snakes 133/1 (caption) The ‘corkscrew’ display of the ringneck snake, Diadophis punctatus, exposes the snake's brightly coloured underside. < as lemmas |
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