Definition of Ribbon snake

1. Noun. Slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places.

Exact synonyms: Thamnophis Sauritus
Generic synonyms: Garter Snake, Grass Snake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbon Snake

ribbits
ribbitted
ribbitting
ribbok
ribboks
ribbon
ribbon-leaved water plantain
ribbon development
ribbon fern
ribbon representation
ribbon seal
ribbon seals
ribbon snake (current term)
ribbon synapse
ribbon tree
ribbon worm
ribboned
ribbonfish
ribbonfishes
ribboning
ribbonless
ribbonlike
ribbonry
ribbons
ribbonwoods
ribbony

Literary usage of Ribbon snake

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

1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"... ribbon snake. One specimen in National Museum, from Neosho Falls (Brown). ... ribbon snake. Douglas county (Mozley). ..."

2. Gleanings from Nature by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1899)
"The food of the ribbon snake is chiefly insects and the small cricket frogs, its body being too slender to encompass many of those larger forms of life in ..."

3. Collections by CT Historical Society (1901)
"... the green or grass snake, ribbon snake, house or milk adder, field and swamp adder, the black snake, the red or brown wood snake, the ring- necked snake ..."

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