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PRONUNCIATION OF TREE SNAKE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TREE SNAKE

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Tree snake is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TREE SNAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tree snake

Brown tree snake

The brown tree snake is an arboreal rear-fanged colubrid snake native to eastern and northern coastal Australia, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and a large number of islands in northwestern Melanesia. This snake is infamous for being an invasive species responsible for devastating the majority of the native bird population in Guam.

Definition of tree snake in the English dictionary

The definition of tree snake in the dictionary is any of various slender arboreal colubrid snakes of the genera Chlorophis, Chrysopelea, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TREE SNAKE

tree house
tree hugger
tree kangaroo
tree lawn
tree layer
tree line
tree mallow
tree of heaven
tree of knowledge of good and evil
tree of life
tree pipit
tree ring
tree runner
tree shrew
tree sparrow
tree surgeon
tree surgery
tree toad
tree tomato
tree trunk

WORDS THAT END LIKE TREE SNAKE

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

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

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tree snake» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TREE SNAKE

Find out the translation of tree snake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tree 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 «tree snake» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

树蛇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

serpiente del árbol
570 millions of speakers

English

tree snake
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पेड़ साँप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثعبان شجرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

древесная змея
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serpente árvore
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গাছ সর্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

serpent d´arbre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ular pokok
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Baumschlange
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

樹上性ヘビ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

나무 뱀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wit ula
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con rắn cây
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மரம் பாம்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झाड सर्पा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ağaç yılanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

albero serpente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zielony wąż
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

деревна змія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șarpe copac
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φίδι δέντρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boom slang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

träd orm
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tre slange
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tree snake

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TREE SNAKE»

The term «tree snake» is normally little used and occupies the 109.652 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TREE SNAKE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tree snake» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tree snake» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TREE SNAKE»

Discover the use of tree snake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tree snake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Sweetfish - tree snake
This twenty-two volume set presents the appearance and behavior of thousands of species of animals along with species population and prospects for survival in a arranged alphabetically and easy-to-read format.
‎2002
2
Tortoise, Tree Snake, Gator, and Sea Snake: What Is a Reptile?
What Is a Reptile? Brian P. Cleary. Turtles, iguanas, crocodiles, and many other creatures are all reptiles! Clever rhymes from Brian P. Cleary and comical illustrations from Martin Goneau explain the traits that all reptiles have in common and ...
Brian P. Cleary, 2012
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Life on Earth: A - G.. 1
The primary cause of these extinctions was the unintentionally introduced brown tree snake. As the bird species disappeared before the eyes of the world's ornithologists, the culprit initially went unidentified and was extremely successful in its ...
‎2002
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The Snake Almanac: A Fully Illustrated Natural History of ...
Invasion of the Brown Tree Snake For several years, Hawaii has been on the alert to guard against the accidental introduction of another snake, which is far from harmless. It is the brown tree snake, native to eastern Indonesia, the Solomon ...
Edward R. Ricciuti, 2001
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Reptiles
Boiga blandingii 72 1229 1230 1231 1232 1233 1234 1235 Boiga blandingii Squamata - Colubridae e Blanding's Cat Snake; Blanding's Tree Snake d Blandings Nachtbaumnatter Boiga ceylonensis Squamata - Colubridae e Sri Lanka Cat ...
Murray Wrobel, 2004
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Congressional Record
ESTABLISHMENT OF QUARANTINE PROTOCOLS TO CONTROL THE INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF THE BROWN TREE SNAKE. (a) Establishment of Quarantine Protocols. — Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of ...
Congress, 2010
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Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, ...
Most are characterized by subdued colours, but two species are vivid: the large Grey-tailed Racers (Gonyosoma TOP: The Paradise Tree Snake (Chrysopelea paradisi ; glides by launching itself from branches; it contracts muscles so that its  ...
‎2006
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Practical Conservation Biology
Diagnosing a landscape decline: forest birds and the introduction of the Brown Tree Snake on Guam Island faunas are particularly susceptible to introduced species (Simberloff, 1995). For example, the bird assemblages on the island of Guam ...
David Lindenmayer, Mark Burgman, 2005
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Harmful non-indigenous species in the United States.
Experts attribute the extinctions and declines to the brown tree snake. Along with birds, the snake also feeds on introduced rats and shrews, whose numbers have also declined. Today the snake is sustained primarily by introduced lizards.
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Experimental Approaches to Conservation Biology
The brown tree snake is a pest of conservation importance that is a suitable but nontraditional target for biological control.Boiga irregularis is the proximate cause of twelve native-bird extinctions on Guam following its accidental introduction ...
Malcolm S. Gordon, Soraya M. Bartol, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TREE SNAKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tree snake is used in the context of the following news items.
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Graphic video: Brown tree snake undergoes surgery to remove car …
A SNAKE now has 40 sutures and is recovering after undergoing life-ssssaaving sssurgery to remove a car part from its stomach in far north Queensland. «Courier Mail, May 15»
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International travel is turning the world into one giant supercontinent …
Take the Papua New Guinean brown tree snake, for example. When the snake was introduced to Guam in the 1940s (presumably by hitching a ride aboard a ... «Business Insider, Apr 15»
3
Snake in shopping trolley causes stir at Caboolture Coles
A COLES Caboolture customer has had a shock after discovering a small Brown Tree Snake in their shopping trolley. The woman alerted staff after finding the ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Apr 15»
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Brown tree snake found dead still biting its neck outside a Cairns …
It certainly looked that way when Matt Hagan from Cairns Snake Catchers found the ... after a woman found the 1.5 metre Brown Tree snake on her doorstep. «Daily Mail, Nov 14»
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Green tree frog pulls off great snake escape, far north Queensland …
Green tree frog pulls off great snake escape, far north Queensland snake catcher ... attempting to remove a common tree snake from a home when she noticed a ... «ABC Online, Oct 14»
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Brown tree snake found in Northern Mariana Islands; reptile can …
HAGATNA -- A snake that can wipe out bird populations and short out electrical grids by climbing power poles has been found in Rota on the Northern Mariana ... «CTV News, Sep 14»
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Nightmare for Forest Lake boy when he finds tree snake under …
When a young Forest Lake boy climbed into bed on Monday night, he found a tree snake had got there first and was writhing away under his pillow. «Courier Mail, Apr 14»
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Flying snakes have 'surprising aerodynamic' bodies
They placed the snake model in a water tunnel and used a laser to track flow ... The paradise tree snake is one of the world's five species of flying snakes, ... «CBC.ca, Jan 14»
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US drops 2000 mice on Guam to curb snake population
The mice are stuffed with 80mg of paracetamol, the mild pain medication, which is deadly to brown tree snakes. The rodents were tied to miniature cardboard ... «BBC News, Dec 13»
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Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes
But the rodent commandos didn't know they were on a mission: to help eradicate the brown tree snake, an invasive species that has caused millions of dollars in ... «NBCNews.com, Dec 13»

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