lyre snake

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   mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America

   Broadercolubrid snake

   NarrowerSonoran lyre snake

   Part ofTrimorphodon

Questions about lyre snake

What does lyre snake mean?

lyre snake means "mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America".

Is lyre snake a common word?

lyre 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.