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milk snake
noun
- any of numerous, usually brightly marked king snakes of the subspecies Lampropeltis triangulum ( doliata ), of North America.
milk snake
noun
- a nonvenomous brown-and-grey North American colubrid snake Lampropeltis doliata, related to the king snakes
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It took some sleuthing, but they determined it was not a species prohibited in Oregon or Washington, and they further narrowed its identity to a Honduran milk snake.
The two most prevalent are the common garter snake and milk snake.
But after she and her husband caught the snake in a transparent container, an expert told them it was a non-venomous female milk snake common in Massachusetts.
“Is that a milk snake?” a man asked about a colorful specimen.
They included members of the northern watersnake, racer, milk snake and queen snake species.
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