| 单词 | wampum snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswampum snake wampum snake n. now historical any of several North American colubrid snakes having colourful bands or stripes; esp. the mud snake Farancia abacura; cf. sense 2. 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 corn-snake1676 blacksnake1694 wampum snake1737 coluber1754 pilot snake1793 wampum1819 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > farancia abacura (hoop-snake) horn-snake1694 wampum snake1737 horned snake1775 hoop-snake1784 1737 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. viii. Pl. 58 (heading) The Wampum Snake...receives its name from the Resemblance it has to Indian Money called Wampum,..made of Shells cut into regular Pieces, and strung with a Mixture of Blue and White. 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 463 Wampum Snake. Coluber Fasciatus. 1893 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 12 Jan. 1/2 Druggist W. H. Mickel..has the skin of a wampum snake six feet in length. 1950 Herpetologica 6 170/2 Wampum snake. F[arancia] abacura. 2015 A. A. Bauer in E. C. Nelson & D. J. Elliott Curious Mister Catesby xvii. 239 (caption) ‘The Wampum Snake’ has been variously interpreted as a water snake (Nerodia sp.) or the eastern mudsnake (Farancia abacura). < as lemmas |
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