elaphe guttata

1. 1.

   large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms

   Synonymscorn snakered rat snake

   Broaderrat snake

   Part ofElaphe

Questions about elaphe guttata

What does elaphe guttata mean?

elaphe guttata means "large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms".

What is another word for elaphe guttata?

Close synonyms include corn snake, red rat 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 elaphe guttata a common word?

elaphe guttata 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.