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Definition of Indigo snake
1. Noun. Large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Colubrid, Colubrid Snake
Specialized synonyms: Drymarchon Corais Couperi, Eastern Indigo Snake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indigo Snake
Literary usage of Indigo snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The indigo snake is found in the sandy portions of the southeastern United States
and often glides for the burrows of the gopher tortoise when danger ..."
2. Archæology of the United States by Samuel Foster Haven (1856)
"In the kidneys of the indigo snake (Coluber couperi), several pyriform calculi
were found imbedded in their substances, extending from their anterior ..."
3. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"The Eastern indigo snake, a protected species, is immune to the venom of all ...
The Eastern indigo snake, the diamondback rattlesnake, the dusky gopher ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The eggs are three or four, pale bluish white, without spots. See Colored Plate
of EGOS OF SONG-BIRDS. INDIGO-SNAKE. Sec GOPHER-SNAKE. ..."
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