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Green snake

noun

Any of numerous African colubrid snakes.

Either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color. Synonym: grass snake.

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"Green snake" Quotes from Famous Books

... mother who has approached to shield from harm the beloved child for whom she died; we read it in the story of the friendship and enmity between the Baron and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine; we read it in the vision seen in the forest by the minstrel Bard, of the bright green snake coiled around the wings and neck of a fluttering dove; and, finally, we read it in its most startling form, in the conclusion of the poem, "A little child, a limber elf, singing, dancing to itself," etc., wherein is exhibited the strange tendency to express love's excess "with words of ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... virulence; but this we did not verify. Snakes sometimes came in with the wood, but oftener floated down the river to us, climbing on board with ease by the chain-cable, and some poisonous ones were caught in the cabin. A green snake lived with us several weeks, concealing himself behind the casing of the deckhouse in the daytime. To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold green snake gliding over one's face is rather unpleasant, however rapid the movement may be. Myriads of two varieties of cockroaches infested the vessel; ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

Words linked to "Green snake" : colubrid snake, colubrid, Chlorophis, genus Opheodrys, Opheodrys, Opheodrys vernalis, Opheodrys aestivus, genus Chlorophis