red-bellied black snake

English

Noun

red-bellied black snake (plural red-bellied black snakes)

  1. A snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, of eastern Australia.
    • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 99:
      A red-bellied black snake moves through her mind, sliding through the grass.