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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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And, gliding like a lovely and innocent milk snake out of his grasp, she slipped away.
Near them a milk snake had stowed himself away in a crevice, and in the little earthquake which we set up got badly crushed.
The Red Milk Snake is prettily colored—red and yellow—and is the type found in the south.
After one has seen a copperhead he is not likely to confuse it with the milk snake or any other.
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