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Definition of Mountain blacksnake
1. Noun. Large harmless shiny black North American snake.
Generic synonyms: Rat Snake
Group relationships: Elaphe, Genus Elaphe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Blacksnake
Literary usage of Mountain blacksnake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"See ARARAT. Pilot-plant, the compass-plant (qv). Pilot Snake, a rustic name in
the United States for several different snakes, as the mountain blacksnake ..."
2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"THE PILOT BLACKSNAKE; mountain blacksnake ; THE BLACK COLUBER Coluber obsoletus, (Say.)
One of the largest species. The form is quite stout and the head is ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... Mexico, and the West Indies, and the Texan whipsnake (qv) is a near relation.
The chain-snake is sometimes called 'mountain blacksnake. ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... The Writer, May 1968 The maximum orbit attained by the capsule —Current
Biography, November 1965 The great mountain blacksnake, entirely harmless, ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"See ARARAT. Pilot-plant, the compass-plant (qv). Pilot Snake, a rustic name in
the United States for several different snakes, as the mountain blacksnake ..."
6. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"THE PILOT BLACKSNAKE; mountain blacksnake ; THE BLACK COLUBER Coluber obsoletus, (Say.)
One of the largest species. The form is quite stout and the head is ..."
7. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... Mexico, and the West Indies, and the Texan whipsnake (qv) is a near relation.
The chain-snake is sometimes called 'mountain blacksnake. ..."
8. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... The Writer, May 1968 The maximum orbit attained by the capsule —Current
Biography, November 1965 The great mountain blacksnake, entirely harmless, ..."
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