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Meanings of Natrix natrix in English

Portuguese
cobra-de-água-de-colar

Harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar; common in England.

        cobra-de-água-de-colar
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        Examples for "grass snake"
        Examples for "grass snake"
        1
        To demonstrate his point, he draped a grass snake around the teacher's neck.
        The new yorker
        2
        Its tail first lashed my calf, then wrapped around it like a grass snake.
        Full dark, no stars
        3
        Look, he has killed a grass snake; how would you like to be treated so?
        The Bishop and Other Stories
        4
        Granpa Chook stood inside the circle; held firmly in his beak was a three-foot grass snake.
        The power of one
        5
        It's friendly to man, the grass snake is.
        The Bishop and Other Stories
        1
        The ring snake is not a constrictor, yet he thus tied himself round the tree by the coils of his tail.
        A Book of Natural History / Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
        1
        To this belong the various kinds of toads, ringed snakes, water-frogs, tree-frogs, etc.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
        Translations for Natrix natrix