单词 | black runner |
释义 | > as lemmasblack runner d. U.S. In full black runner. The black racer (snake), Coluber constrictor. Cf. racer n.2 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus or member of genus Coluber > coluber constrictor (racer) blacksnake1694 runner1795 racer1818 1795 T. Todd Let. Feb. in S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont (1809) I. 485 I approached with caution within twenty feet of a black snake, about seven feet long, having a white throat, and of the kind which the people there call runners. 1835 C. J. Latroube Rambler N. Amer. II. iii. 46 He would tell us..of the powers of the black-runner in destroying the rattle-snake. 1855 W. G. Simms Forayers xxxix. 456 Push forward, quick as a runner (black snake). 1985 in F. L. Buss Dignity 212 We didn't pay most snakes much attention. We kids used to chase some of them like crazy, 'specially black runners. 2005 J. W. Gibbons & M. E. Dorcas Snakes of Southeast 122 Racers are often called black runners or blue runners in the rural South. < as lemmas |
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