indigo snake in British English
noun
a dark-blue nonvenomous North American colubrid snake, Drymarchon corais couperi
indigo snake in American English
US
a large, smooth, harmless, colubrid snake (Drymarchon corais) found in lowlands from S.C. to Tex.
indigo snake in American English
noun
a large, deep-blue or brown harmless snake, Drymarchon corais, ranging from the southern U.S. to South America and invading burrows to prey on small mammals: the eastern subspecies D. corais couperi is now greatly reduced in number
Also called: gopher snake Word origin
[1880–85, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, highball, interface, pari-mutuel, quotation markImage ofindigo snake
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