Definition of Lined snake

1. Noun. Secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States.

Exact synonyms: Tropidoclonion Lineatum
Generic synonyms: Colubrid, Colubrid Snake
Group relationships: Genus Tropidoclonion, Tropidoclonion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lined Snake

linebreaks
linebred
linebreeding
linebreedings
linecaster
linecasters
linecasting
linecastings
linecut
linecuts
lined
lined antshrike
lined antshrikes
lined flap
lined gold
lined snake (current term)
linefeed
linefeeds
linehaul
lineic
lineless
linelike
lineman
linemate
linemates
linemen
linemode
linen
linen basket
linen closet

Literary usage of Lined snake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"... the broad-lined snake millipede. The larva: of the Elater are of a yellowish-brown colour, slender, flat, smooth, and shining, slightly pubescent, ..."

2. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"RED-lined snake. Blue-black; sides with three red lines; eyes very large; nostrils in the middle of nasal plate; scales 19; G. 180; L. 25. ..."

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