any of various small, harmless, striped colubrid snakes (genus Thamnophis) common in North America
Origin of garter snake
so named from the stripes, suggestive of garters, running the length of its bodygarter snake
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garter snake
noun
Any of various nonvenomous North and Central American snakes of the genus Thamnophis, having longitudinal stripes.
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