carpet snake

noun

1. a large, nonvenomous Australian python, Morelia spilotes variegata, having a variegated pattern on its back, often used to control rats and mice in barns and silos.

carpet snake

noun

1. a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back

Word History and Origins

Origin of carpet snake¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Bat would marry Carpet Snake, and their children would, by class name, be Cats.

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The largest of them is known as the carpet snake, and the specimen that we saw was about ten feet long.

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Advancing cautiously along it, she came across a huge carpet snake coiled "all a same rope alonga boat."

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Brown brought a carpet snake, and a brown snake with yellow belly.

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A famous python is the six-foot, tree-dwelling carpet snake of Australia, black, beautifully marked with a pattern of yellow dots.

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