tiger snake

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English[edit]

a tiger snake, Notechis scutanus

Noun[edit]

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Wikispecies tiger snake (plural tiger snakes)

  1. Any of several large venomous Australian snakes of the genus Notechis.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:
      We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]

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