black racer

noun

Definition of BLACK RACER

: either of two common black colubrid snakes of the U.S.:

a : a snake (Coluber constrictor constrictor) chiefly of the eastern United States

b : a snake (C. constrictor priapus) of the southeastern U.S.

1836

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