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Significados de coachwhip en inglés

Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers.

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A whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip.

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Examples for "ocotillo"
Examples for "ocotillo"
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Suddenly he flipped off the light, and a fifteen-foot high ocotillo shrub vanished.
Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult
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He first saw them laboring over the plain in the dusk among flowering ocotillo that burned in the final light like horned candelabra.
Blood Meridian
3
Outside a bare dirt yard fenced with ocotillo and a round clay oven caved through where black curd trembled in the light within.
Blood Meridian
4
Red clay dominated the landscape with a scattering of ocotillos, barrel cacti, and palo verdes.
Goodbye dolly
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The bear again disappeared, taking the Jacob's staff, and appeared no more that night.
Bears I Have Met—and Others
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7 And in his hand a Jacob's staff, to stay
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
Uso de coachwhip en inglés
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Raff was startled next to see a coachwhip.
Anthill: a novel
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A great long coachwhip snake was wrapped 'round him, his arms and all, and whooping him with its tail.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
3
Nobody spares a rattlesnake, however much they might wish to let an innocent coachwhip or a common gartersnake get away.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
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He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching.
Outlander
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Its head was raised the way coachwhips do while they're hunting mice and other prey.
Anthill: a novel
Coachwhip a través del tiempo