"rat snake" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rat snakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} rat snake (plural rat snakes)
  1. Any of many medium to large colubrid constrictors of a kind found through a great portion of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily feeding on rodents and birds. Categories (lifeform): Colubrid snakes Synonyms: chicken snake, ratsnake Translations (rat snake): လင်းမြွေ (lang:mrwe) (Burmese), ചേര (cēra) (Malayalam), ဇြုံသ္ၚိ (Mon), ဇြံုရပ်ကၞိ (Mon), gharasappa [masculine] (Pali)
    Sense id: en-rat_snake-en-noun-ia5pum1V Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Malayalam terms with redundant script codes Derived forms: Baja California rat snake (taxonomic: Bogertophis rosaliae), beauty rat snake (taxonomic: Elaphe taeniura), black rat snake (taxonomic: Pantherophis alleghaniensis), Dione's rat snake (taxonomic: Elaphe dione), eastern ratsnake (taxonomic: Pantherophis alleghaniensis), European rat snake, European ratsnake (taxonomic: Zamenis situla), gray rat snake, grey rat snake (taxonomic: Pantherophis spiloides), Gray's rat snake (taxonomic: Platyceps ventromaculatus), Great Plains rat snake (taxonomic: Pantherophis emoryi), Hardwicke's rat snake (taxonomic: Platyceps ventromaculatus), Indian rat snake (taxonomic: Ptyas mucosa), Japanese rat snake (taxonomic: Elaphe climacophora), Mandarin rat snake (taxonomic: Euprepiophis mandarinus), Oriental rat snake (taxonomic: Ptyas mucosa), Persian rat snake (taxonomic: Zamenis persicus), Philippine rat snake (taxonomic: Coelognathus erythrurus), red rat snake (taxonomic: Pantherophis guttatus), rhicoceros rat snake, rhino rat snake (taxonomic: Gonyosoma boulengeri), steppe rat snake, steppes rat snake (taxonomic: Elaphe dione), Texas rat snake (taxonomic: Pantherophis obsoletus lindheimeri), Trans-Pecos rat snake (taxonomic: Bogertophis subocularis), western rat snake (taxonomic: Pantherophis obsoletus), yellow-red rat snake (taxonomic: Pseudelaphe flavirufa)

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          "taxonomic": "Pantherophis obsoletus",
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          "word": "chicken snake"
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