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de kay's brown snake

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English

Syllables
de kay's brown s-nake
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Storeria dekayi, a small non-venomous American colubrid.

Etymology

Named after American zoologist James Ellsworth De Kay (1792–1851), who collected the first specimen on Long Island, New York.

Inflected Forms

De Kay's brown snakes (plural)

Synonyms

brown snake De Kay's snake

Questions

What does de kay's brown snake mean?
Storeria dekayi, a small non-venomous American colubrid.
Where does de kay's brown snake come from?
Named after American zoologist James Ellsworth De Kay (1792–1851), who collected the first specimen on Long Island, New York.

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