The Collaborative International Dictionary
Striped \Striped\, a. Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
Striped bass. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bass.
Striped maple (Bot.), a slender American tree ( Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood.
Striped mullet. (Zo["o]l.) See under Mullet, 2.
Striped snake (Zo["o]l.), the garter snake.
Striped squirrel (Zo["o]l.), the chipmunk.
Usage examples of "striped snake".
But this handful of brightness boiled over in midair, condensed and coalesced and was a striped snake the size of a pool cue, its skull bursting almost out of its skin with eagerness to strike.
Sareni would have approved, he thought, as he drank the last of the wine, and slipped his frail old hand into the bowl of figs where a tiny, rainbow-striped snake was curled.
One day, when my axe had come off and I had cut a green hickory for a wedge, driving it with a stone, and had placed the whole to soak in a pond-hole in order to swell the wood, I saw a striped snake run into the water, and he lay on the bottom, apparently without inconvenience, as long as I stayed there, or more than a quarter of an hour.