glossy snake

1. 1.

   nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales

   SynonymsArizona elegans

   Broadercolubrid snake

   Part ofArizona

Questions about glossy snake

What does glossy snake mean?

glossy snake means "nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales".

What is another word for glossy snake?

Close synonyms include Arizona elegans. 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 glossy snake a common word?

glossy 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.