Whip-snake, a name given in North America to various species of the genus Masticophis (especially M. flagelliformis, the coach-whip snake, 4 to 5 feet long, slender, and harmless); as also to species of Philodryas, of Passerita, &c.
Whip-snake
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 631
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