Water Snake (Noun)
Meaning
Any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- While fishing near the pond, Jack carefully watched the ripples, spotting a sleek water snake basking on a partially submerged rock.
- Myra consulted with the wildlife expert before installing the swimming area's screening, because they all agreed they must not endanger or distract local animals including non-threatening snakes known colloquially as the green water snake.
- Before carefully trying for my grand lass waterborne event our intreprids camp leader helped me capture a rather curious harmless water snake while both of us went canoeing.
- My kids learned at the zoo lessons that Florida water snakes feed close after sunrise while spending rest sun on tree in water and eat variety fauna when fish on surface.
- One day it happened I was busy getting my canoe onto the riverbank, suddenly a big water snake jumped off in shallow water straight past just almost my half-length black swimwear and then leapt onto algae across mid-lake to a tree branch for daytime basking near water.