ribbon snake

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   slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places

   SynonymsThamnophis sauritus

   Broadergarter snake

Questions about ribbon snake

What does ribbon snake mean?

ribbon snake means "slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places".

What is another word for ribbon snake?

Close synonyms include Thamnophis sauritus. 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 ribbon snake a common word?

ribbon 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.