leaf-nosed snake

1. 1.

   any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America

   Broadercolubrid snake

   Part ofPhyllorhynchus

Questions about leaf-nosed snake

What does leaf-nosed snake mean?

leaf-nosed snake means "any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America".

Is leaf-nosed snake a common word?

leaf-nosed 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.