ring-necked snake

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   any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck

   Synonymsringneck snakering snake

   Broadercolubrid snake

   Part ofDiadophis

Questions about ring-necked snake

What does ring-necked snake mean?

ring-necked snake means "any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck".

What is another word for ring-necked snake?

Close synonyms include ringneck snake, ring snake. 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 ring-necked snake a common word?

ring-necked 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.