blacksnake Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large harmless shiny black North American snake
    mountain blacksnake; Elaphe obsoleta; pilot blacksnake; black rat snake.
  2. noun blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
    black racer; Coluber constrictor.

WordNet

Black" snake`, Black"snake noun (Also<
  • Black snake
  • Blacksnake
)
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913