common garter snake

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   a garter snake that is widespread in North America

   SynonymsThamnophis sirtalis

   Broadergarter snake

Questions about common garter snake

What does common garter snake mean?

common garter snake means "a garter snake that is widespread in North America".

What is another word for common garter snake?

Close synonyms include Thamnophis sirtalis. 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 common garter snake a common word?

common garter 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.