carpet snake

noun

1

: a rather large Australian constricting snake (Python variegatus or spilotes) chiefly pale brown with a mottled pattern see diamond snake

2

in Tasmania : a pale form of the tiger snake

3

: a common Indian wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus)

Word History

Etymology

perhaps so called from its variegated coloring

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