black snake

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black snake (plural black snakes)

  1. Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
    1. Any species of Pseudechis, a genus of Australian snakes.
    2. Crotalus oreganus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
    3. Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
    4. Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous North and Central American species of snake.
    5. Pantherophis alleghaniensis, a North American colubrid species of snake.
    6. Pantherophis obsoletus, a North American colubrid species of snake.
    7. Pantherophis spiloides, a North American colubrid species of snake.
  2. A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction.
    Synonym: snake
  3. Alternative form of blacksnake (whip)
    • 1907, Elbert Hubbard, Harry Persons Taber, The Philistine, page 46:
      All at once I saw a strange man coming across the diamond with a black snake whip in his hand.
    • 1914, John F. Merry, History of Delaware County, Iowa, and Its People, page 203:
      His punishment was fixed at thirty-nine lashes with a black snake whip []

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