bull-snake

1. 1.

   any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes

   Synonymsbull snake

   Broadercolubrid snake

   Narrowergopher snakepine snake

   Part ofPituophis

Questions about bull-snake

What does bull-snake mean?

bull-snake means "any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes".

How many syllables are in bull-snake?

bull-snake has 2 syllables: bull--snake. The stress falls on "bull-".

What is another word for bull-snake?

Close synonyms include bull snake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bull-snake a common word?

bull-snake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.