gopher snake

Questions about gopher snake

What does gopher snake mean?

gopher snake means "large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for gopher snake?

Close synonyms include indigo snake, Drymarchon corais, Pituophis melanoleucus. 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 gopher snake a common word?

gopher snake is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.