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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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Word History and Origins
Origin of milk snake1
An Americanism dating back to 1790–1800; so called because they were said to suck milk from cows
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Example Sentences
And, gliding like a lovely and innocent milk snake out of his grasp, she slipped away.
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Near them a milk snake had stowed himself away in a crevice, and in the little earthquake which we set up got badly crushed.
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The Red Milk Snake is prettily colored—red and yellow—and is the type found in the south.
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After one has seen a copperhead he is not likely to confuse it with the milk snake or any other.
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