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Definition of Indian rat snake
1. Noun. Enter buildings in pursuit of prey.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Rat Snake
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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