garter snake

Questions about garter snake

What does garter snake mean?

garter snake means "any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes".

What is another word for garter snake?

Close synonyms include grass 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 garter snake a common word?

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.