tiger snake

noun

tiger snake

noun

1

Any of several large venomous Australian snakes of the genus Notechis.

We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:

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