The Collaborative International Dictionary
bullsnake \bull"snake`\, bull snake \bull" snake`\(b[oo^]l"sn[=a]k`), n. any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes of the genus Pituophis. They include the gopher snake and pine snake.
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WordNet
n. large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico [syn: indigo snake, Drymarchon corais]
bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows [syn: Pituophis melanoleucus]
Usage examples of "gopher snake".
Always used to show up at the parties with some gassy thing, a gopher snake or a white mouse or some gassy thing like that in his pocket?
A gopher snake slithered from its hiding place and coiled itself, its delicate tongue probing at the morning air, tasting the two human beings.
A large gopher snake writhed in front of Jak Lauren, making the boy reach for his Magnum.
A gopher snake peeked at them from beneath a clump of prickly pears, then disappeared.