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whip-snake
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Noun whip-snake has 1 sense
- whip-snake(n = noun.animal) whip snake, whipsnake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails; Array is a kind of colubrid, colubrid snake
is a member of genus masticophis, masticophis
has particulars: coachwhip, coachwhip snake, masticophis flagellum, california whipsnake, masticophis lateralis, striped racer, masticophis bilineatus, sonoran whipsnake
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