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Noun [English]

Forms: black snakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} black snake (plural black snakes)
  1. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Any species of Pseudechis, a genus of Australian snakes.
    Translations (Any species of Pantherophis): ᎦᎴᎩ (galegi) (Cherokee) Translations (Any species of Pseudechis): bui (Yagara)
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-QU3fDhEu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Elapid snakes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of 'Any species of Pantherophis': 36 8 8 10 13 13 13 0 0 Disambiguation of 'Any species of Pseudechis': 54 8 8 10 7 7 7 0 0
  2. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Crotalus oreganus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-ywyb-7U4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Yagara translations, Colubrid snakes, Elapid snakes, Vipers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 19 19 15 11 11 11 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Yagara translations: 8 15 15 19 13 13 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Colubrid snakes: 9 13 13 17 14 14 14 3 1 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of Vipers: 8 18 19 17 12 12 12 2 0
  3. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-R2go9jhk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Yagara translations, Colubrid snakes, Elapid snakes, Vipers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 19 19 15 11 11 11 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Yagara translations: 8 15 15 19 13 13 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Colubrid snakes: 9 13 13 17 14 14 14 3 1 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of Vipers: 8 18 19 17 12 12 12 2 0
  4. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous North and Central American species of snake.
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-jtdQs7Qi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Cherokee translations, Terms with Yagara translations, Colubrid snakes, Elapid snakes, Vipers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 19 19 15 11 11 11 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 15 15 20 12 12 12 3 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Cherokee translations: 9 15 15 21 12 12 12 2 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Yagara translations: 8 15 15 19 13 13 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Colubrid snakes: 9 13 13 17 14 14 14 3 1 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of Vipers: 8 18 19 17 12 12 12 2 0
  5. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Pantherophis alleghaniensis, a North American colubrid species of snake.
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-K7XUYEdB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Yagara translations, Colubrid snakes, Elapid snakes, Vipers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 19 19 15 11 11 11 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Yagara translations: 8 15 15 19 13 13 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Colubrid snakes: 9 13 13 17 14 14 14 3 1 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of Vipers: 8 18 19 17 12 12 12 2 0
  6. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Pantherophis obsoletus, a North American colubrid species of snake.
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-N08pK14L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Yagara translations, Colubrid snakes, Elapid snakes, Vipers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 19 19 15 11 11 11 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Yagara translations: 8 15 15 19 13 13 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Colubrid snakes: 9 13 13 17 14 14 14 3 1 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of Vipers: 8 18 19 17 12 12 12 2 0
  7. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    Pantherophis spiloides, a North American colubrid species of snake.
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-GyZ0~zxl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Yagara translations, Colubrid snakes, Elapid snakes, Vipers Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 14 14 14 12 12 12 6 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 19 19 15 11 11 11 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 16 16 15 11 11 11 5 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Yagara translations: 8 15 15 19 13 13 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Colubrid snakes: 9 13 13 17 14 14 14 3 1 Disambiguation of Elapid snakes: 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 4 2 Disambiguation of Vipers: 8 18 19 17 12 12 12 2 0
  8. A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction. Synonyms: snake
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  9. Alternative form of blacksnake (“whip”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: blacksnake (extra: whip)
    Sense id: en-black_snake-en-noun-APdKAA9e
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Pharaoh's serpent

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous North and Central American species of snake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Coluber constrictor",
          "Coluber constrictor#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:",
        "Pantherophis alleghaniensis, a North American colubrid species of snake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colubrid",
          "colubrid"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:",
        "Pantherophis obsoletus, a North American colubrid species of snake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colubrid",
          "colubrid"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:",
        "Pantherophis spiloides, a North American colubrid species of snake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colubrid",
          "colubrid"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firework",
          "firework"
        ],
        [
          "ash",
          "ash"
        ],
        [
          "intumescent",
          "intumescent"
        ],
        [
          "reaction",
          "reaction"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "snake"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "whip",
          "word": "blacksnake"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              65,
              76
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1907, Elbert Hubbard, Harry Persons Taber, The Philistine, page 46:",
          "text": "All at once I saw a strange man coming across the diamond with a black snake whip in his hand.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1914, John F. Merry, History of Delaware County, Iowa, and Its People, page 203:",
          "text": "His punishment was fixed at thirty-nine lashes with a black snake whip […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of blacksnake (“whip”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blacksnake",
          "blacksnake#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yxg",
      "lang": "Yagara",
      "sense": "Any species of Pseudechis",
      "word": "bui"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "galegi",
      "sense": "Any species of Pantherophis",
      "word": "ᎦᎴᎩ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "black snake"
}

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