BLACK SNAKE

{ Black″ snake′ (snāk) or Black″snake }, n. (Zoöl.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. ☞ The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.