"chicken snake" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chicken snakes [plural]
Etymology: So called because they like to eat chicken eggs. Head templates: {{en-noun}} chicken snake (plural chicken snakes)
  1. Any of various North American colubrid snakes. Wikipedia link: chicken snake Categories (lifeform): Colubrid snakes Synonyms: rat snake

Inflected forms

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