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n. - A reptile of southern United States and Mexico; 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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  • We also saw a coachwhip which was not in the trap, but was just on the ground.
  • Nobody spares a rattlesnake, however much they might wish to let an innocent coachwhip or a common gartersnake get away.
  • Forest snakes include cottonmouth moccasin, copperhead, rough green snake, rat snake, coachwhip, and speckled kingsnake.
  • The coachwhip, a snake listed as endangered in Illinois, is restricted to Ecoregion 72l (Illinois Department of Natural Resources, on-line resource “b”; Illinois Natural...
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