Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gopher_snake
2 senses of gopher snake
Sense 1
indigo snake, gopher snake, Drymarchon corais -- (large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico)
=> colubrid snake, colubrid -- (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)
Sense 2
gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus -- (bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows)
=> bull snake, bull-snake -- (any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes)