Definition of Indian rat snake

1. Noun. Enter buildings in pursuit of prey.

Exact synonyms: Ptyas Mucosus
Generic synonyms: Rat Snake
Group relationships: Genus Ptyas, Ptyas

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Rat Snake

Indian paint
Indian paintbrush
Indian pangolin
Indian pangolins
Indian pea
Indian pink
Indian pipe
Indian plantain
Indian podophyllum resin
Indian poke
Indian poker
Indian pony
Indian potato
Indian python
Indian race
Indian rat snake (current term)
Indian rattlebox
Indian red
Indian relish
Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhinoplasty
Indian rhododendron
Indian rhubarb
Indian rice
Indian rosewood
Indian rupee
Indian salad
Indian senna
Indian sickness
Indian strawberry

Literary usage of Indian rat snake

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

1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw ...by Charles John Cornish by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... other Water-snakes: Viperine and Tessellated Snakes: Garter.snakes; Mocassin.snakes; Smooth Snake; Indian Rat-snake; Tree-snakes: Egg- eating Snake; ..."

2. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"Ptyas testacea (Say). Testaceous Snake. Hab. California. a, b. Presented by A. Forrer, Esq., Aug. 20, 1873. 253. Ptyas mucosa (Linn.). Indian Rat-Snake. ..."

3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"Medicinal virtues are also supposed by the author of this book to be present in the excreta of the African cobra, the Indian rat-snake, the black Australian ..."

4. Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley (1882)
"A of the four illustrations given opposite is the jaw-bone of the Indian Rat snake, Ptyas mucosus, already ' honourably mentioned' in these pages. ..."

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