1A large harmless yellowish-cream snake with darker markings, native to western North America.
牛蛇（奶黄色无毒大蛇，有深色斑纹，产于北美西部地区）
Pituophis catenifer, family Colubridae
Example sentencesExamples
The poles of the Earth are not plumb either, just like the chalk stars in constellation over a gopher snake.
In Paradise Valley we found such a place where we could exchange the unctuous reptiles of Hollywood for far less pretentious alligator lizards and gopher snakes.
The next a big gopher snake, fat with spring voles, suns itself on the mown grass.
Randall and Matocq showed that gopher snakes respond to foot drumming of the banner-tailed kangaroo rat.
Predators from gopher snakes to lions have to be able to anticipate where their quarry will dart.
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another term for indigo snake
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Because it seeks refuge in gopher tortoise burrows, along with diamondback rattlesnakes and many other organisms, in some parts of Florida the indigo is called the 'gopher snake'.
In the wild it often inhabits gopher burrows, hence the common names gopher snake or blue gopher snake.
Definition of gopher snake in US English:
gopher snake
noun
1A large harmless yellowish-cream snake with darker markings, native to western North America.
牛蛇（奶黄色无毒大蛇，有深色斑纹，产于北美西部地区）
Pituophis catenifer, family Colubridae
Example sentencesExamples
Predators from gopher snakes to lions have to be able to anticipate where their quarry will dart.
The poles of the Earth are not plumb either, just like the chalk stars in constellation over a gopher snake.
The next a big gopher snake, fat with spring voles, suns itself on the mown grass.
Randall and Matocq showed that gopher snakes respond to foot drumming of the banner-tailed kangaroo rat.
In Paradise Valley we found such a place where we could exchange the unctuous reptiles of Hollywood for far less pretentious alligator lizards and gopher snakes.
1.1
another term for indigo snake
Example sentencesExamples
In the wild it often inhabits gopher burrows, hence the common names gopher snake or blue gopher snake.
Because it seeks refuge in gopher tortoise burrows, along with diamondback rattlesnakes and many other organisms, in some parts of Florida the indigo is called the 'gopher snake'.