tiger snake
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Noun
Wikispecies tiger snake (plural tiger snakes)
- Any of several large venomous Australian snakes of the genus Notechis.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:
- We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]
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