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UK
/kˈəʊtʃwɪp/
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NOUN
- 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
- a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip
How To Use coachwhip In A Sentence
- He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching. Sick Cycle Carousel
- The coachwhip is a nervous snake and may retreat into rocks or rodent burrows when threatened, but it is just as likely to approach an intruder hissing, striking, and possibly shaking its tail; it will bite if handled.
- She walked into the woods with the coachwhip, using its long butt as a feeler in the dark. Lord of the Isles
- One spring day he was showing a group of school teachers through the wildlife reserve, when a seven-foot-long coachwhip snake came zipping across the path in front of the group.
- A highly irritated western coachwhip snake was coiled in the grass.
- I'd ruther a had uvry coachwhip on Round Hill arter me en full chase than to a bin in that drefful siteation. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
- The habitat of the coachwhip includes deserts, grasslands, prairies, woodlands, and open areas.
- We also saw a coachwhip which was not in the trap, but was just on the ground. Snake charmer
- Rattlesnakes eat mostly rodents, but coachwhip snakes will climb trees or cactus to eat eggs from bird nests.
- Nobody spares a rattlesnake, however much they might wish to let an innocent coachwhip or a common gartersnake get away. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
