Harlequin Snake - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: harlequin snakeharlequin snake
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white especially the eastern coral snake a small poisonous snake Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius ringed with red and black found in the Southeastern United States They are widely distributed in Southern and Central America...
Black snake
A snake of a black color of which two species are common in the United States the Bascanium constrictor or racer sometimes six feet long and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis seven or eight feet long...
Coachwhip snake
A large slender harmless snake of the southern United States Masticophis flagelliformis...
Sea snake
Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidaelig having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans They feed upon fishes and are mostly of moderate size but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad...
Snakes head
The Guinea hen flower so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snakes head...
Harlequinade
A play or part of a play in which the harlequin is conspicuous the part of a harlequin...
bullsnake
any of several large harmless rodent eating North American burrowing snakes of the genus Pituophis They include the gopher snake and pine snake...
Colubridae
a broad family including only nonvenomous snakes containing about two thirds of all living species It includes the bullsnakes garter snakes and water snakes as well as many other species...
Elapidae
a natural family of snakes including the cobras kraits mambas the New World coral snakes and Australian taipan and tiger snakes...
Micrurus
A genus of snakes including certain of the coral snakes such as the eastern coral snake Micrurus fulvius...
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