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Definition of Carpet snake
1. Noun. Australian python with a variegated pattern on its back.
Definition of Carpet snake
1. Noun. A harmless snake found in New Guinea and Australia, also known as the Northwestern carpet python or ''Morelia spilota variegata''. ¹
2. Noun. A harmless colubrid species of snake found in North America, also known as the pine snake or ''Pituophis melanoleucus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpet Snake
Literary usage of Carpet snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"carpet snake. Name applied in Australia to Python variegata, Gray, a non-venomous
snake reaching a length of ten feet. The name has reference to the ..."
2. Australian Almanac (1863)
"I'., The carpet snake (Morelia variegata).—There has been some confusion respecting
... The carpet snake is of a brownish black, with numerous irregular, ..."
3. The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"It's nothing but a carpet snake.' " With that Fred cooled down, but said he didn't
want any such pet in his bed, even if it was nothing but a carpet snake. ..."
4. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Sir Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"A great carpet snake individual gave rise ... the carpet snake group, two jew
lizards gave rise to the jew 1 Roth has shown that the idea of conception not ..."
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