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PRONUNCIATION OF SMOOTH SNAKE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMOOTH SNAKE

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Smooth snake is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SMOOTH SNAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of smooth snake in the English dictionary

The definition of smooth snake in the dictionary is any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SMOOTH SNAKE

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smooth breathing
smooth hound
smooth muscle
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smooth-faced
smooth-running
smooth-shaven
smooth-spoken
smooth-talk
smooth-talker
smooth-talking
smooth-tongued
smoothable
smoothbore
smoothbored
smoothen
smoother
smoothie
smoothies

WORDS THAT END LIKE SMOOTH SNAKE

blacksnake
blind snake
brown snake
bull snake
coral snake
diamond snake
garter snake
gopher snake
grass snake
hognose snake
indigo snake
king snake
milk snake
rat snake
rattlesnake
sea snake
snake
tiger snake
tree snake
water snake
whip snake

Synonyms and antonyms of smooth snake in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «smooth snake» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SMOOTH SNAKE

Find out the translation of smooth snake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of smooth snake from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «smooth snake» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

光滑的蛇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

culebra lisa
570 millions of speakers

English

smooth snake
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चिकनी साँप
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ثعبان السلس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

медянка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serpente lisa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মসৃণ সর্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

serpent lisse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ular yang licin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schlingnatter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

滑らかなヘビ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부드러운 뱀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ula sing alus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rắn mịn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையான பாம்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुळगुळीत साप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pürüzsüz yılan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colubro liscio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gniewosz plamisty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мідянка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șarpe buna
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομαλή φίδι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gladde slang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slät orm
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glatt slange
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of smooth snake

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SMOOTH SNAKE»

The term «smooth snake» is used very little and occupies the 155.145 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SMOOTH SNAKE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about smooth snake

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMOOTH SNAKE»

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Handbook of Biodiversity Methods: Survey, Evaluation and ...
Protection status in the UK and EU Of the six reptile species resident in the UK, two (Smooth Snake and Sand Lizard) are fully protected on Schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (as amended), which affords them protection under ...
David Hill, 2005
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles
... Snakes 4872 Smooth Helmeted Basilisk 2153 Smooth Helmeted Iguana 2153 Smooth Horned Lizard (NA) 6405 Smooth Knobtail Gecko 5762 Smooth Lizard 4330 Smooth Slug Snake 4184 Smooth Snake 2146 Smooth Snakes 2145, 3726 , ...
Murray Wrobel, 2004
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Silent Summer: The State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland
The British Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) series is meant to protect the best wildlife sites, and the site selection guidelines are quite specific about Sand Lizard and Smooth Snake sites. Nevertheless, it is an imperfect system and the ...
Norman Maclean, 2010
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: Volume 1: North America
... 7303 smoothseed allophylus 327 smooth senna 7455 smooth simarouba 7543 smooth snake bark 2028 smooth snake-bark 2028 smooth star-apple 1691 smooth stylogyne 7786 smooth sumac 6939 smooth topobea 8229 smooth wildixora ...
M.M. Grandtner, 2005
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Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, ...
... 14928 smooth peritassa, 12021 smooth pouteria, 12833 smooth rauwolfia, 13688 smooth seagrape, 3243 smoothseed allophylus, 495 smooth senna, 14593 smooth snake bark, 3299 smooth snake-bark, 3299 smoothspike falsepiptadenia, ...
M.M. Grandtner, Julien Chevrette, 2013
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The Reptiles of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomic Diversity, ...
... it is known in rocky mountainous-xerophytic steppe and stony slopes with bush vegetation. Smooth snake penetrates into the meadow and subalpine zones up to the elevation 3000 m above sea level. In the eastern Transcaucasia, as a rule,  ...
‎2006
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Hibernation
Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca) The smooth snake is a slender, nonvenomous species of variable color, usually gray, brown, or reddish-brown with a double row of brown or black spots along the back, these sometimes joining to form two ...
Clive Roots, 2006
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A Nature Conservation Review: Volume 1: The Selection of ...
The smooth snake and sand lizard are evidently able to occupy dry, open heathland throughout the year, provided the heather is of the correct height. The common lizard and the slow worm occupy a wider range of habitat and can occur in ...
Derek Ratcliffe, 2012
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Herpetological Osteopathology: Annotated Bibliography of ...
... 386 Smallhead worm lizard, 392 Small mouthed salamander, 95, 162, 380 Small spotted lizard, 393 Smith's water snake, 387 Smooth Eft, 402 Smooth knobtail gecko, 394 Smooth newt, 73, 98, 163, 272, 402 Smooth snake, 66, 79, 108, 168, ...
Bruce M. Rothschild, Hans-Peter Schultze, Rodrigo Pellegrini, 2012
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New Scientist
There are three lizards: the common lizard, the sand lizard and the legless slow- worm; three snakes: the grass snake, the smooth snake and the adder; three newts: the smooth (or common), the palmate and the crested; and three anurans, the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMOOTH SNAKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smooth snake is used in the context of the following news items.
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Graham Carter says snakes he can handle but squirrels and van …
I have seen snakes in zoos, obviously, and we once saw one in a park in the ... So it's possible he was a boring grass snake or a run-of-the-mill smooth snake. «Swindon Advertiser, Jul 15»
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Nature writer Charlie Elder ventures where the wild things are
My adventures included being bitten by a smooth snake, catching one of our rarest – and possibly ugliest – bats, and chancing across a sperm whale off ... «Ham&High, Jul 15»
3
Venomous cobra found in kitchen bites family dog which may have …
A venomous snake slithered into a family's kitchen and bit off the tail of their pet dog. ... False water cobras are also known as Brazilian smooth snakes and when ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
4
Pirbright fires: Rare sand lizards and smooth snakes killed
About two-thirds of the population of rare sand lizards and smooth snakes are thought to have been killed at Stoney Castle Ranges in Pirbright, Surrey. «BBC News, Apr 15»
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On St. Patrick's Day, here's the real reason Ireland has no snakes
Snakes, however, moved north much more slowly. Three species slithered into Britain – the adder, the grass snake, and the smooth snake – but they arrived too ... «Christian Science Monitor, Mar 15»
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To Protect An Endangered Snake, First Protect A Venomous One
You decide to kill the snake with a rock. That was a poor decision, especially since the dead snake wasn't an adder. It was a smooth snake—completely ... «National Geographic, Sep 14»
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Young smooth snakes rely on reptiles
By analysing the snakes' faeces for traces of prey genetic material, scientists from Cardiff University found that 85 per cent of smooth snakes had eaten reptiles ... «Planet Earth, Aug 14»
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Warning of mystery snake near Porthilly Beach footpath
NOT DANGEROUS: Grass snakes can grow to six feet in length. ... Britain's other native snakes are the adder and the increasingly rare smooth snake, neither of ... «cornishguardian.co.uk, Jul 14»
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Happy new Year of the Snake
There is another, very rare species in Britain called the smooth snake, but I never saw one. All three indigenous wild snakes there are strictly protected — which ... «The Japan Times, Jan 13»
10
Snakes of Bulgaria - An Insight
Snakes, love them or loath them are very much a part of Bulgaria, and if you spend ... These are the Worm Snake, Cat Snake, Smooth Snake, Horn Nosed Viper, ... «Quest News, Oct 12»

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