denisonia

  • 61AUSTRALIE — L’Australie est l’un des plus grands États du monde. Sa vaste superficie (7 682 300 km2), presque celle de l’Europe, ne contient néanmoins que 17,4 millions d’habitants (2,2 hab./km2) en 1992. De plus, cette population est très inégalement… …

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  • 62myall snake — /ˈmaɪɔl sneɪk/ (say muyawl snayk) noun a small, elapid snake, Denisonia suta, of southern and inland Australia; not considered dangerous; saltbush snake …

  • 63whipsnake — ☆ whipsnake [whip′snāk΄, wipsnāk΄ ] n. 1. any of various long, slender, nonpoisonous colubrid snakes that often live in trees 2. any of several poisonous elapine snakes (genera Demansia and Denisonia) of Australia …

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  • 64copperhead — n. 1 a venomous viper, Agkistrodon contortrix, native to N. America. 2 a venomous cobra, Denisonia superba, native to Australia …

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  • 65elapid — noun any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres • Syn: ↑elapid snake • Hypernyms: ↑snake, ↑serpent, ↑ophidian • Hyponyms: ↑coral snake, ↑ …

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  • 66elapid snake — noun any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres • Syn: ↑elapid • Hypernyms: ↑snake, ↑serpent, ↑ophidian • Hyponyms: ↑coral snake, ↑ …

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  • 67whip snake — noun any of several small fast moving snakes with long whiplike tails • Syn: ↑whip snake, ↑whipsnake • Hypernyms: ↑colubrid snake, ↑colubrid • Hyponyms: ↑coachwhip, ↑ …

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  • 68black-bellied snake — noun : a common slightly venomous snake (Denisonia signata) widely distributed in eastern Australia that is olive or brownish above with the underparts very dark gray or black …

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  • 69marsh snake — noun : a common dark bellied snake (Denisonia signata) of New South Wales that is related to the Australian copperhead …

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  • 70white-lipped snake — noun : an Australian elapid snake (Denisonia coronoides) that is related to the copperhead but not especially dangerous, is brown to olive above shading to creamy white or salmon pink ventrally, and has the upper lip usually white and bounded by… …

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