water snake

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   any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water

   Broadercolubrid snake

   Narrowercommon water snakewater moccasingrass snake

Questions about water snake

What does water snake mean?

water snake means "any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water".

Is water snake a common word?

water 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.