indigo snake

noun

|Updated on: 12 May 2018

Definition of indigo snake

: a very large blue-black or brownish colubrid snake (genus Drymarchon and especially D. corais) of the southeastern U.S. and Texas to Argentina — called also gopher snake

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Texas tortoises, indigo snake, Texas horned lizards – are found few other places.

— shannon tompkins, Houston Chronicle, "Behold the untamed splendor of South Texas," 4 May 2018
Others, including imperiled Eastern indigo snakes and burrowing owls, rely on tortoise accommodations to escape fire, cold and predation.

— kevin spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Wekiva Parkway gopher tortoises face rough road," 27 Feb. 2018

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