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Tiger snake   /tˈaɪgər sneɪk/   Listen
Tiger snake

noun
1.
Highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania.  Synonym: Notechis scutatus.





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"Tiger snake" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Oondooroo Station and when bringing the bullocks in to be yoked in the morning, one of them jumped and tossed his head in the air, and I then saw a tiger snake disappear in a hole near by. The bullocks were yoked up, and after going a short distance the off-side poler of one of the teams dropped dead. On examination, we found two small punctures in the nose. It was the bullock I had seen jump ...
— Reminiscences of Queensland - 1862-1869 • William Henry Corfield
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... grew over two feet and a half in length, and on a bright day one might see several of these reptiles swimming across from one bank to the other. Of the common brown snake—the kind we most dreaded—and the black-necked tiger snake, we killed numbers with our guns and with sticks, and one day, when crossing some red ironstone ridges on the Ravenswood road, we despatched two death-adders which were lying asleep on the bare, hot road. They ...
— "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific - 1901 • Louis Becke
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Words linked to "Tiger snake" :   elapid snake, elapid, genus Notechis, Notechis scutatus, Notechis


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