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Definition of Rock snake
1. Noun. Very large python of tropical and southern Africa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Snake
Literary usage of Rock snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"The Rock-snake (Python molurus, L.) inhabits the whole of India, but prefers the
dense forests clothing the base of the mountain-chains and extending, ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
"said the Bi-Coloured Python-Rock-Snake. " You couldn't have done that with a
mere-smear nose. Don't you think the sun is very hot here ? ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"... 3 species, all of South Africa : the Natal rock snake, 25 feet long, and as
largo as the body of a stout man; the Guinea rock snake, of which there is a ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"The Rock-snake» are found in the hottest parts of Africa, Asia the East Indian
Archipelago, and Australia. They climb as well as they swim ; most of them ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"... and the rock snake of Java ; the former is one of tho largest and most terrible
of all these hideous monsters, said to grow to 30 feet in length, ..."
6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... and Borneo, and the rock snake of Java. The former is one of the largest and
most terrible of all these monsters, said to grow to 80 ft. in length, ..."
7. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"nv- •. specimen in the Regent's park ; and the royal rock snake, supposed to
weigh over 100 Ibs. III. Boa, four species, peculiar to Mexico, Honduras, ..."
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