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North American rat snakes
Answer for the clue "North American rat snakes ", 6 letters:
elaphe
Word definitions for elaphe in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elaphe \Elaphe\ n. a genus of snakes comprising the Old World and American rat snakes. Syn: genus Elaphe .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Elaphe is one of the main genera of the rat snakes , which are found in many regions of the northern hemisphere. Elaphe are medium to large constrictors by nature. All species are nonvenomous. Although all of the species in Elaphe are nonvenomous, bites ...
Usage examples of elaphe.
I ordered a course to be set toward Elaphe Vulpina, then sat gritting my teeth while my communications and science staff searched for the fragile transponder signal along the way.
All I know is that as soon as he cut it, the aliens changed course away from Elaphe Vulpina and stopped slapping us around.
So why did they wait for several hours after Chekov convinced them to turn away from Elaphe Vulpina before they released the hostages in a Klingon pod several sizes larger than it needed to be?
And, unless I missed my bet, they’d be back at Elaphe Vulpina about the time the first salvo was being fired in the Federation/Klingon war.