SINCE 1828
red-bellied snake
nounDefinition of red-bellied snake
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: any of several American colubrid snakes with coral or reddish ventral surfaces: such as
b
: a woodland snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) of the Mississippi valley and southeast to Florida
2
: an Australian elapid snake (Pseudelaps squamulosus) that is brown or blackish above and salmon-red below and is venomous but not dangerous to man
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