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white–lipped snake
noun
Definition of white–lipped snake
: an Australian elapid snake (Denisonia coronoides) that is related to the copperhead but not especially dangerous, is brown to olive above shading to creamy white or salmon pink ventrally, and has the upper lip usually white and bounded by a black streak and sometimes a yellow collar about the neck
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