tiger snake

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   highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania

   SynonymsNotechis scutatus

   Broaderelapid

   Part ofNotechis

Questions about tiger snake

What does tiger snake mean?

tiger snake means "highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania".

What is another word for tiger snake?

Close synonyms include Notechis scutatus. 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 tiger snake a common word?

tiger 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.