单词 | spotted snake |
释义 | > as lemmasspotted snake spotted snake n. now rare any of various snakes with spotted coloration, as the Eurasian smooth snake, Coronella austriaca, and the American night snake, Hypsiglena torquata.In quot. 1600: figurative. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 9 You spotted Snakes, with double tongue..Come not neere our Fairy Queene. View more context for this quotation 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Plack-slange, a spotted Snake or Adder. c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 301 Taking the Common English Spotted Snake as an example. 1978 G. B. Wiersma et al. Devel. Pollutant Monitoring Syst. Biosphere Reserves Appendix C. 106 (list) Hypsiglena torquata. (Spotted Snake). < as lemmas |
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