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Definition of Lined snake
1. Noun. Secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States.
Exact synonyms: Tropidoclonion Lineatum
Generic synonyms: Colubrid, Colubrid Snake
Group relationships: Genus Tropidoclonion, Tropidoclonion
Generic synonyms: Colubrid, Colubrid Snake
Group relationships: Genus Tropidoclonion, Tropidoclonion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lined Snake
Literary usage of Lined snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"... the broad-lined snake millipede. The larva: of the Elater are of a yellowish-brown
colour, slender, flat, smooth, and shining, slightly pubescent, ..."
2. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"RED-lined snake. Blue-black; sides with three red lines; eyes very large; nostrils
in the middle of nasal plate; scales 19; G. 180; L. 25. ..."
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