masticophis

English Thesaurus

1. whip snakes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	reptile genus,
definition	:	a genus of reptiles (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnake,
definition	:	any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	colubridae, family colubridae,
definition	:	nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species (noun.animal)