snake dance | a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked |
Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Granicus Battle of Granicus River | the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians ( BC) |
Metaurus River | a battle during the second Punic War ( BC), Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy |
Meuse Meuse River Argonne Argonne Forest Meuse-Argonne Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle in World War I () |
Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle of World War II () |
Yalu River | a battle in the Korean War (November ), when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River , Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back |
amphiuma congo snake congo eel blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
cooter river cooter Pseudemys concinna | large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico |
glass lizard glass snake joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
snake serpent ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile, some are venomous |
colubrid snake colubrid | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
hoop snake | any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop |
thunder snake worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
ringneck snake ring-necked snake ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
hognose snake puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
smooth green snake Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
green snake | any of numerous African colubrid snakes |
whip-snake whip snake whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
coachwhip coachwhip snake Masticophis flagellum | a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico, tail resembles a braided whip |
rat snake | any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia |
corn snake red rat snake Elaphe guttata | large harmless snake of southeastern United States, often on farms |
black rat snake blacksnake pilot blacksnake mountain blacksnake Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
chicken snake | large North American snake |
Indian rat snake Ptyas mucosus | enter buildings in pursuit of prey |
glossy snake Arizona elegans | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales |
bull snake bull-snake | any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
gopher snake Pituophis melanoleucus | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows |
pine snake | any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods, now threatened |
king snake kingsnake | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors, feed on other snakes and small mammals |
milk snake house snake milk adder checkered adder Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
garter snake grass snake | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
ribbon snake Thamnophis sauritus | slender yellow-striped North American garter snake, prefers wet places |
Western ribbon snake Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
lined snake Tropidoclonion lineatum | secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods, feeds on earthworms, of central United States |
ground snake Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightlyinged terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |
eastern ground snake Potamophis striatula Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
water snake | any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
grass snake ring snake ringed snake Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
viperine grass snake Natrix maura | a small harmless grass snake |
red-bellied snake Storeria occipitamaculata | harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States |
sand snake | small North American burrowing snake |
banded sand snake Chilomeniscus cinctus | a sand snake of southwestern United States, lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims', banding resembles that of coral snakes |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |