Water snake: Definition and part of speech

Water snake

  1. Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsidae, all of which are aquatic in their habits.
  2. A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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