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blue racer

noun

  1. a bluish racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of Ohio to eastern Iowa.


blue racer

noun

  1. a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris , of the US
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blue racer1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences

The "hoop snake" was quite as authentic to us as the blue racer, although no one had actually seen one.

For the subspecies of racer involved in my field study the widely used vernacular "blue racer" has been adopted in this report.

On several occasions I have been led to a blue racer by the distressed croaking of a frog that the snake had captured.

The locale of the present study was near the geographic center of the blue racer's range.

In the adult blue racer the dorsal color is variable, pale brown or gray, bluish, greenish or slaty.

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