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Definition of Ribbon snake
1. Noun. Slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbon Snake
Literary usage of Ribbon snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"... ribbon snake. One specimen in National Museum, from Neosho Falls (Brown). ...
ribbon snake. Douglas county (Mozley). ..."
2. Gleanings from Nature by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1899)
"The food of the ribbon snake is chiefly insects and the small cricket frogs, its
body being too slender to encompass many of those larger forms of life in ..."
3. Collections by CT Historical Society (1901)
"... the green or grass snake, ribbon snake, house or milk adder, field and swamp
adder, the black snake, the red or brown wood snake, the ring- necked snake ..."