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Milk snake   /mɪlk sneɪk/   Listen
Milk snake

noun
1.
Nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes.  Synonyms: checkered adder, house snake, Lampropeltis triangulum, milk adder.






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"Milk snake" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of our snakes are harmless, beautiful, and beneficient. They are friendly to the farmer, because, although some destroy a few birds, chickens, ducklings, and game, the largest part of their food is mice and insects. The Blacksnake, the Milk Snake, and one or two others, will bite in self-defence, but they have no poison fangs, and the bite is much like the ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... we find three venomous species, the Rattlesnake, the Massasauga, and the Copper-Head. The largest serpents are the Black Snake, five feet long, and the Milk Snake, from five ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various

... climbed the orchard wall to cross the road, a milk snake was sunning on the loose stones among the raspberry bushes, the first I had ever seen; and I bear witness that the ancestral antipathy to the serpent leaped within me instantly. I beat his head without remorse, ay, pounded ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens



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