black snakes
Melanistic slithering reptiles
Black snakes are any of several dark-colored, nonvenomous snake species found in North America, including the black rat snake and black racer.
The term is informal and regional rather than scientific.
A black snake is also a type of long, braided leather whip: He cracked the black snake over the horses' heads.
- ophidianRelating to serpents
- nonvenomousProducing no poison
- reptileCold-blooded scaled vertebrate
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- moltShed outer covering
slither · harmless · racer · coachwhip · blacksnake · rat catcher · scales · shed skin · pilot · firework · squamate · cold blooded · legless · fangs · constrictor · kingsnake · whip · moult
venom/danger
black snakesvenomous snakes
Reptiles with toxic bites
vipers · pit vipers · rattlesnakes · cobras · coral snakes
black, snake, blacks, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackish