mountain blacksnake

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   large harmless shiny black North American snake

   Synonymsblack rat snakeblacksnakepilot blacksnakeElaphe obsoleta

   Broaderrat snake

   Part ofElaphe

Questions about mountain blacksnake

What does mountain blacksnake mean?

mountain blacksnake means "large harmless shiny black North American snake".

What is another word for mountain blacksnake?

Close synonyms include black rat snake, blacksnake, pilot blacksnake, Elaphe obsoleta. 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 mountain blacksnake a common word?

mountain blacksnake 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.