black rat snake(n = noun.animal) blacksnake, elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake - large harmless shiny black North American snake;
is a kind of rat snake
is a member of elaphe, genus elaphe

african coral snake, american black bear, animal black, asian black grouse, asian coral snake, asiatic black bear, australian coral snake, banded sand snake, banded water snake, bandicoot rat, beaver rat, black, black africa, black african, black american, black and blue, black and gold garden spider, black and tan, black and white, black angus, black apricot, black archangel, black art, black ash, black bamboo, black bass, black bead, black bean, black bear, black bearberry, black bee, black beech, black belt, black bile, black bindweed, black birch, black body, black book, black box, black bread, black bream, black bryony, black buck, black buffalo, black calla, black caraway, black carpet beetle, black cat, black catechu, black cherry, black cherry tree, black cock, black cohosh, black comedy, black cottonwood, black crappie, black currant, black cypress pine, black death, black diamond, black disease, black duck, black economy, black elder, black elderberry, black english, black 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opal, black operation, black out, black panther, black panthers, black pea, black pepper, black person, black pine, black plague, black poplar, black power, black prince, black pudding, black race, black racer, black raspberry, black rat, black rhinoceros, black rock desert, black rockweed, black rod, black root rot fungus, black rot, black rudderfish, black sage, black sally, black salsify, black salts, black saltwort, black sea, black sea bass, black september, black september movement, black sheep, black snake, black snakeroot, black spanish, black spleenwort, black spot, black spruce, black squirrel, black stork, black sumac, black swan, black tai, black tea, black tie, black tongue, black tree fern, black turnstone, black vomit, black vulture, black walnut, black walnut tree, black wash, black wattle, black weevil, black whale, black widow, black willow, black woman, black-headed snake, blind snake, bluish black, bone black, brown rat, brunswick black, bull snake, california black oak, california black walnut, carbon black, carpet snake, cat and rat, chicken snake, chinchilla rat, chinese black mushroom, coachwhip snake, coal black, colubrid snake, common garter snake, common water snake, congo snake, coral snake, corn snake, cotton rat, damaraland mole rat, desert rat, dusky-footed wood rat, dwarf pocket rat, eastern coral snake, eastern ground snake, eastern indigo snake, elapid snake, european black alder, european black currant, european black grouse, florida water rat, frankfort black, garter snake, glass snake, glossy snake, gopher snake, grass snake, green snake, ground snake, gym rat, harlequin snake, hognose snake, hoop snake, house snake, indian rat snake, indigo snake, ivory black, japanese black pine, jerboa rat, jet black, joint snake, joseph black, kangaroo rat, kentucky black bass, king snake, largemouth black bass, largemouthed black bass, leaf-nosed snake, lined snake, little black ant, lyre snake, magnase black, marsupial rat, mexican black cherry, milk snake, mole rat, naked mole rat, new world coral snake, night snake, norway rat, old world coral snake, opossum rat, ord kangaroo rat, oriental black mushroom, pack rat, pine snake, pitch black, platinum black, plumber's snake, pocket rat, pouched rat, queen mole rat, rat, rat cheese, rat chinchilla, rat kangaroo, rat race, rat snake, rat terrier, rat typhus, red rat snake, red-bellied snake, ribbon snake, rice rat, ring snake, ring-necked snake, ringed snake, ringneck snake, rock snake, roof rat, rough green snake, sand rat, sand snake, sea rat, sea snake, sewer rat, shirley temple black, shoe black, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed black bass, smooth green snake, snake, snake charmer, snake dance, snake doctor, snake eyes, snake feeder, snake fence, snake fern, snake god, snake in the grass, snake mackerel, snake muishond, snake oil, snake palm, snake pit, snake plant, snake polypody, snake river, snake venom, snake wood, sonoran lyre snake, soot black, spitting snake, spotted black bass, thunder snake, tiger snake, tow-headed snake, trade rat, vine snake, viperine grass snake, water rat, water snake, welsh black, western blind snake, western coral snake, western ribbon snake, wharf rat, whip snake, wood rat, worm snake