Definition of Common garter snake

1. Noun. A garter snake that is widespread in North America.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Garter Snake

common factor
common fate
common fault
common fennel
common fibular nerve
common fig
common fig tree
common flat pea
common four-o'clock
common foxglove
common fraction
common fractions
common front
common garden cress
common garter snake (current term)
common ginger
common glow-worm
common glow-worms
common glowworm
common goldeneye
common goldeneyes
common good
common grape hyacinth
common grape vine
common green lacewing
common green lacewings
common ground
common gull
common gulls

Literary usage of Common garter snake

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

1. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"... summarized in this paper represent work carried on during the spring and early summer of 1902 upon the variations in the common garter-snake. ..."

2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"common garter snake. One specimen in National Museum from Ft. Riley, and one from Neosho Falls (Brown). Douglas county (Mozley). Prof. ..."

3. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"common garter snake, E. sirtalis, typical form, Distribution.—Southern Canada and the United Three ... The common garter snake, of the Eastern States, ..."

4. Gleanings from Nature by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1899)
"(d) common garter snake, E. s. sirtalis (L.); has the stripes present but faint and narrow, with three rows of indistinct dark spots on each side. ..."

5. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"... garter snake Plains garter snake common garter snake Inhabitants of bare ground Pseudacris clarki Pseudacris maculata Pseudacris triseriata Rana blairi ..."

6. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark: 194 Essays from the Pages of by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"Thamnophis sirtalis, common garter snake. (Meriwether Lewis, Deer Island in Columbia River, Oregon, March 28, 1806.) we saw a great number of snakes on this ..."

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