indigo snake

indigo snake

n. Any of several bluish-black nonvenomous snakes of the genus Drymarchon found from the southern United States to northern South America.

indigo snake

n (Animals) a dark-blue nonvenomous North American colubrid snake, Drymarchon corais couperi

in′digo snake′

n. a large, harmless, shiny blue-black New World snake, Drymarchon corais. Also called gopher snake. [1880–85]

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indigo snake - large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and MexicoDrymarchon corais, gopher snakecolubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakesDrymarchon corais couperi, eastern indigo snake - a variety of indigo snake