red-bellied snake

noun

1

: any of several American colubrid snakes with coral or reddish ventral surfaces: such as

a

: western ring-necked snake

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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