diamond snake

noun

1

: a snake of a variety of the carpet snake restricted to parts of the east coast of Australia and distinguished by smaller size, darker color, and reduction of the pattern to diamond-shaped clusters of spots

2

in Tasmania : copperhead sense 1b

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